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How to spell marvelous

What it means: Extremely good or impressive.

In a sentence: The magician's tricks were marvelous to watch! ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as marvelouss or marvulous.

Also spelled: marvellous (accepted as correct).

Same family: marvel, marveling, marvelously, marvelousness. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Marvelous comes from the Old French word “merveilleux,” meaning ‘wonderful’ or ‘astonishing,’ which is related to “merveille,” meaning ‘a wonder.’ Over time, English speakers adapted the spelling and pronunciation to the modern form “marvelous.”

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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