How to spell marketing

hear itmar·ket·ing/'mɑrkʌtɪŋ/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: The commercial processes involved in promoting and selling products.

In a sentence: The store used bright posters for marketing their new toys.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as markiting or marketting.

Same family: marketer, marketed, marketable, marketplace. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Marketing comes from the word 'market', which originally referred to a place where people gathered to buy and sell goods; over time, 'marketing' grew to mean the whole process of promoting and selling products or services. The root goes back to Latin and Old French words related to trade and a place of business.

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