How to spell physics

hear itphys·ics/'fɪzɪks/nounLong vowels

What it means: The science of matter and energy.

In a sentence: In physics class, we learn why apples fall from trees.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as phisics or physic.

Same family: physicist, physical, physically, physiology, metaphysics. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Physics comes from the Greek word 'physis', meaning 'nature'. In ancient times, physics was part of natural philosophy—the study of how the natural world works—before becoming its own separate science.

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