How to spell routine

hear itrou·tine/ru'tin/nounRules and real life

What it means: A set sequence of steps or actions.

In a sentence: Every morning, brushing your teeth is a part of your routine.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as rountine or rutine.

Same family: routinely, routine (adjective: regular or usual), program, segment, sequence. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Routine” comes from French, where it originally meant a regular way or path (from ‘route,’ meaning road). Over time, it also came to mean a set piece of performance, like a dance or comedy routine that follows a planned path of actions.

Patterns it uses: i before e?

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