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How to spell psalm

What it means: A sacred song or poem.

In a sentence: Every Sunday, Grandma reads a psalm from her favorite book. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for a silent p, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as salm or palm.

Same family: psalms, psalmist, psalter, hymn, chant. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “psalm” comes from the Greek word “psalmos,” which originally meant a song sung to the sound of a plucked stringed instrument, like a harp. Over time it came to mean a sacred song, especially those found in the biblical Book of Psalms.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa) · Silent letters

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