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How to spell mysterious

What it means: Something difficult to understand or explain.

In a sentence: The old house on the hill is mysterious at night. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as misterious or mysterous.

Same family: mysteriously, mysteriousness, mystic, mystical, mystify. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Mysterious comes from the noun 'mystery', which traces back to the Greek word 'mysterion', meaning a secret rite or hidden thing. Over time, it came to describe anything that feels strange, secretive, or hard to explain.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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