How to spell schedule

hear itsched·ule/'skɛdʒul/nounRules and real life

What it means: A plan showing when events or activities will happen.

In a sentence: We have a fun schedule for the school trip.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as schedual or scheduel.

Same family: schedules, scheduled, scheduling, reschedule, timetable. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Schedule” comes from Old French “cedule,” meaning a slip of paper or list, which itself came from Latin “schedula,” a small sheet of papyrus. Over time, the meaning shifted from a written list to the organized plan of times and events we use today.

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