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How to spell select

hear itse·lect/sɪ'lɛkt/verbRules and real life

What it means: Please choose your favorite ice cream flavor.

In a sentence: Please select your favorite ice cream flavor.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as selete or silect.

Same family: selection, selected, selecting, selective, selector. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Select” comes from Latin *seligere*, meaning “to pick out” (from *se-* ‘apart’ + *legere* ‘to gather’). It’s related to words like “elect” and “collect,” which also go back to the Latin root *legere*.

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