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How to spell scenery

Scenery is spelled S-C-E-N-E-R-Y.

hear itscen·er·y/'sinəri/nounPrefixes and work

What it means: The appearance of a place or landscape.

In a sentence: The scenery in the park is beautiful with all the flowers and trees.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: scene, scenic, scenically, stage, setting. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Scenery comes from the word 'scene', which goes back to the Greek word 'skēnē', meaning a stage or tent. Over time, 'scenery' came to mean the painted stage background that shows where a play is taking place.

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