How to spell review

hear itre·view/rɪ'vju/verbLong vowels

What it means: To examine or assess something.

In a sentence: We will review our favorite books today.

The part people get wrong

Watch for the order of ie. Often misspelled as revue or reviw.

Same family: revue, reviewer, preview, overview, interview. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: English borrowed the word “review” from French, where the related word “revue” came to mean a theatrical variety show. In English, “review” now mostly means ‘to look at again’ or ‘critique’, while the French-style spelling “revue” is more common for the stage show meaning—though historically they share the same root.

Patterns it uses: Prefixes keep every letter

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