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How to spell survivor

hear itsur·vi·vor/sər'vaɪvər/nounRules and real life

What it means: A person or animal that continues to live through danger.

In a sentence: The brave cat was a survivor after the big storm.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as surviver or survovor.

Same family: survived, surviving, survival, survivorship, survivable. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Survivor” comes from the Latin word *supervivere*, meaning “to live beyond” or “to outlive.” The English noun uses the suffix “-or” to show a person who performs an action: a survivor is literally “one who survives.”

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