How to spell survey

hear itsur·vey/'sər,veɪ/nounRules and real life

What it means: A set of questions asked to gather information.

In a sentence: We did a survey to find out the favorite ice cream flavor at school.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as servey or survay.

Same family: surveyed, surveying, surveyor, overview, summary. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Survey comes from Old French 'surveiier,' meaning 'to look over,' from Latin roots meaning 'over' (super) and 'to see' (videre). This origin explains why a survey can be a brief look or summary of events.

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