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How to spell response

hear itre·sponse/rɪ'spɑns/nounRules and real life

What it means: A reply or reaction to something.

In a sentence: She smiled in response to the funny joke.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as responce or respones.

Same family: respond, responsive, responsible, responsibility, correspond. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Response” comes from Latin roots meaning “to answer or promise back.” It entered English through Old French, and it’s closely related to the verb “respond” and the adjective “responsible.”

Patterns it uses: Prefixes keep every letter

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