How to spell rapture

hear itrap·ture/'ræpʧər/nounRules and real life

What it means: A feeling of intense joy or delight.

In a sentence: The kittens felt rapture as they played with their new toys.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as raptuer or raptuer.

Same family: rapt, enrapture, enraptured, ecstasy, bliss. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Rapture comes from Latin *raptura*, meaning 'a carrying off' or 'seizure,' from *rapere* 'to seize or snatch.' Over time, English speakers began using it for the feeling of being 'carried away' by intense joy or emotion.

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