How to spell research

hear itre·search/rɪ'sɜrʧ/nounLong vowels

What it means: Careful study to find and learn new facts.

In a sentence: We did research to learn about dinosaurs.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as reseach or reasearch.

Same family: researcher, researching, researched, researchable, research-based. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “research” comes from Old French *rechercher*, meaning “to seek out.” The prefix *re-* suggests doing something again, and *chercher* means “to search,” so the idea is to “search carefully or again” for answers.

Patterns it uses: Prefixes keep every letter

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