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How to spell series

Series is spelled S-E-R-I-E-S. One R, then IES, the same ending as species.

What it means: A sequence of related items.

In a sentence: I watched a fun series about friendly dinosaurs. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for the order of ie.

Same family: serial, serialized, episode, sequence, installment. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Series” comes from Latin *series*, meaning a row, chain, or sequence. It entered English through Medieval Latin and has kept that sense of things arranged one after another, like episodes or volumes in order.

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