How to spell popular

hear itpop·u·lar/'pɑpjələr/adjectiveLong vowels

What it means: Well-liked or admired by many people.

In a sentence: The ice cream truck is very popular in the summer.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as populer or popluar.

Same family: popularity, popularly, unpopular, well-liked, fashionable. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Popular comes from the Latin word 'popularis,' meaning 'of the people' or 'belonging to the people.' Over time, its meaning shifted to describe things liked by many people, not just related to ordinary citizens.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

Try spelling it

You will hear the word and a sentence. Type it and press Enter. Then four more words from the same level, so you know where you stand.

Words like this

phenomenon · knowledge · phobia · additional · never · little · answer · done

Spelling.School is a spaced-repetition spelling practice: ten minutes a day, every word spoken aloud, every miss explained, and every word coming back just before you would forget it. Try five words without signing up.