How to spell property

Property is spelled P-R-O-P-E-R-T-Y. It is proper with TY on the end.

hear itprop·er·ty/'prɑpərti/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: Something owned or a piece of land.

In a sentence: The park is a fun property with swings and slides.

Same family: properties, proprietor, proprietary, ownership, asset. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Property comes from the Latin word 'proprietas', meaning ‘ownership’ or ‘a thing owned’, which itself comes from 'proprius', meaning ‘one’s own’. This is also the distant ancestor of the word 'proper', originally meaning ‘belonging to a person’ before it came to mean ‘correct’ or ‘appropriate’.

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