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How to spell physical

hear itphys·i·cal/'fɪzɪkəl/adjectiveLong vowels

What it means: Relating to the body rather than the mind.

In a sentence: Let's get some physical exercise by playing outside.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as phisical or phycical.

Same family: physics, physically, physician, physicality, physiological. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Physical comes from the Latin word 'physicalis' and Greek 'physis,' meaning 'nature.' Over time, its meaning shifted from 'relating to nature' to 'relating to the body or material forces,' which is how we use it in science and everyday language today.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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