How to spell regular

hear itreg·u·lar/'rɛɡjələr/adjectiveSilent and tricky

What it means: Happening again and again at fixed times.

In a sentence: Melissa goes for a regular walk in the park every morning.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as reguler or reglar.

Same family: regularly, regularity, irregular, regulate, regulation. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Regular comes from Latin 'regularis', meaning 'made according to a rule', from 'regula' for 'rule'. Over time, English speakers began using it as an intensifier in informal speech, as in calling something a 'regular mess' or a 'regular hero'.

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