How to spell sample

hear itsam·ple/'sæmpəl/nounRules and real life

What it means: A small part representing the whole.

In a sentence: The teacher gave us a sample of the delicious cake.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as sampel or samble.

Same family: sampling, sampled, sampler, example, specimen. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Sample” comes from Old French “essample,” related to Latin “exemplum,” meaning an example or pattern. Over time, English shortened the form and kept the idea of taking a small part to represent the whole.

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