How to spell order

hear itor·der/'ɔrdər/verbLong vowels

What it means: To request something in exchange for payment.

In a sentence: Can you help me order a pizza for dinner?

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as oder or ordar.

Same family: holy orders, clerical, clergy, ordination, hierarchy. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Order comes from Latin "ordo," meaning a row, rank, or class. In Christian history, this idea of rank developed into "holy orders," the official levels of clergy such as deacon, priest, and bishop.

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