How to spell submit

hear itsub·mit/səb'mɪt/verbRules and real life

What it means: To hand over formally.

In a sentence: Please submit your homework by Friday.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as submmit or submitte.

Same family: submission, submitting, submissive, submitter, resubmit. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Submit” comes from Latin *submittere*, meaning “to put under” or “to lower,” from *sub-* (under) and *mittere* (to send). Over time, English kept both ideas: you can “submit” a document by sending it in, or “submit” to someone by placing yourself under their authority.

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