How to spell period

hear itpe·ri·od/'piriəd/nounLong vowels

What it means: A set length of time for a school class.

In a sentence: The bell rings at the end of the school period.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as peroid or perid.

Same family: periods, periodic, periodical, periodically, time period. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Period” comes from the Greek word “periodos,” meaning a going around or a cycle. Over time, its meaning shifted from a cycle or complete sentence in rhetoric to any fixed length of time.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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