How to spell source

Source is spelled S-O-U-R-C-E. Source rhymes with force and ends the same way, R-C-E.

hear itsource/soʊrs/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: The origin or starting point of something.

In a sentence: The river is the source of fresh water for the village.

Same family: sources, sourcing, resource, resources. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "source" comes from Old French "sourse," meaning a rising or a spring of water, and from Latin "surgere," meaning "to rise." That original idea of something that rises or begins is still in the modern sense of a source as the place where information or ideas start.

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