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How to spell patience

Patience is spelled P-A-T-I-E-N-C-E.

What it means: The ability to wait without frustration.

In a sentence: Patience means waiting calmly for your turn on the swing. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear, and the order of ie.

Not to be confused with: patients, a different word.

Same family: patiently, impatient, impatience, tolerance, perseverance. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Patience” comes from the Latin verb *pati*, meaning “to suffer” or “to endure,” so the word originally carried the idea of calmly enduring pain or difficulty. It is closely related to “patient,” which can mean someone receiving medical care or someone who is calm and tolerant.

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