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How to spell space

hear itspace/speɪc/nounSounds

What it means: The vast area beyond Earth's atmosphere.

In a sentence: The astronaut traveled to outer space.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as spase or spaice.

Same family: spaces, spacing, spaced, spacious, spaceless. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Space” comes from Latin “spatium,” meaning a room, distance, or interval. Printers later used it for the tiny metal blocks that create the empty gaps between printed words.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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