How to spell measure

hear itmeas·ure/'mɛʒər/verbRules and real life

What it means: To find the size, length, or amount of something.

In a sentence: We use a ruler to measure the length of our pencil.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as mesure or measur.

Same family: measures, measured, measurable, measurement, legislation. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Measure comes from the Old French word “mesure,” originally meaning a way of judging size or amount. Over time, English speakers also began using it in a legal sense for a proposed law or action taken by a government.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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