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How to spell teammate

Teammate is spelled T-E-A-M-M-A-T-E. The part people get wrong: double M.

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What it means: A person who belongs to the same group or side.

In a sentence: My teammate helped me score a goal today.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double m.

Same family: teammates, teammate's, team, teamwork, teaming. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Teammate is a modern compound word formed from “team” and “mate,” where “team” originally meant a group of draft animals and “mate” comes from an Old Norse word meaning companion. Together they literally mean a companion in your team.

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