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How to spell scope

What it means: The area or range that can be seen.

In a sentence: The telescope helped us see the stars with a wide scope. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as skope or scoap.

Same family: oscilloscope, electroscope, microscope, endoscope, scope (range or extent). If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Scope comes from the Greek root "-skopein," meaning "to look at" or "to examine." This is the same root found in words like "microscope" and "telescope," which are tools used to look at very small or very distant things.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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