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How to spell quality

hear itqual·i·ty/'kwɑlɪti/nounLong vowels

What it means: A degree or grade of excellence or worth.

In a sentence: The quality of her drawing was really good!

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as quaility or qualitty.

Same family: qualitative, qualify, qualification, qualities, high-quality. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Quality comes from Latin *qualitas*, meaning 'of what kind', through Old French *qualité*. Over time, it grew from meaning simply a characteristic to also suggesting how good or bad something is, especially in music and art.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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