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How to spell secondary

Secondary is spelled S-E-C-O-N-D-A-R-Y.

What it means: A term for something that is second in rank.

In a sentence: The secondary playground is where we play games after the lunch bell rings. ▶

The part people get wrong

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Same family: secondary-education, secondary-school, secondary-coil, secondary-source, secondary-effect. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Secondary comes from Latin 'secundarius', meaning 'following' or 'next in order.' In physics, the 'secondary' coil is literally the one where current comes second, after it is induced by the primary coil.

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