How to spell paragraph

hear itpar·a·graph/'pærə,græf/nounHidden vowels

What it means: A distinct section of text that expresses an idea.

In a sentence: I wrote a paragraph about my favorite animal.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as paragragh or paragraf.

Same family: paragraphs, paragraphing, paragraphed, paragrapher, paragraphing-style. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Paragraph” comes from Greek ‘paragraphos,’ meaning ‘a short stroke written beside’ the text to mark a new section. Over time, that little side mark turned into the paragraphs we use to organize writing today—and later became a verb meaning to divide text into paragraphs.

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