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How to spell role
What it means: The function or duty of a person.
In a sentence: The teacher has an important role in our classroom.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as roll or roal.
Sounds like, but is not: roll. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.
Same family: roles, role-play, role-playing, role-model, character. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: Role comes from French "rôle," which originally meant a roll of paper listing an actor’s part in a play. Over time, it came to mean the part or function a person has in any situation, not just in the theater.
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