How to spell periscope

hear itper·i·scope/'pɛrɪ,skoʊp/nounHidden vowels

What it means: An optical device for viewing obstructed areas.

In a sentence: The submarine captain used a periscope to look above the water.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as periscopee or peroscope.

Same family: microscope, telescope, endoscope, stethoscope, periscopic. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Periscope comes from Greek roots: peri meaning "around" and skopein meaning "to look". Many scientific instruments that help us see things, like telescopes and microscopes, share this same -scope ending.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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