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How to spell movement

What it means: The act of changing position.

In a sentence: The cat's movement was quick and graceful. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as movment or movemant.

Same family: moving, moved, motion, mobile. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Movement” comes from Old French “movement,” from the Latin root “movēre,” meaning “to move.” The suffix “-ment” turns the verb “move” into a noun that names the action or result of moving.

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