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How to spell significant

Significant is spelled S-I-G-N-I-F-I-C-A-N-T.

What it means: Important or meaningful in a particular context.

In a sentence: The big tree in the park is a significant part of our neighborhood. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: significance, insignificant, signify, sign, meaningful. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Significant” comes from Latin roots: *signum* meaning “mark” or “token” and *facere* meaning “to make,” so it originally carried the idea of something that “makes a sign” or clearly shows meaning or importance.

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