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How to spell period

Period is spelled P-E-R-I-O-D. The I comes before the O: pe-ri-od, said in three beats.

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.

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.

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