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How to spell separate

What it means: Set apart; not joined or together. As a verb: to move or keep apart.

In a sentence: We need to separate the red blocks from the blue ones. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as seperate or seperete.

Same family: separate (adjective), separation, separately, separatism, separatist. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Separate” comes from Latin *separare*, meaning “to pull apart” or “to divide.” Over time, it came to describe not just physically dividing things, but also dividing or treating people differently, such as by sex or race.

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