How to spell teleport

hear ittel·e·port/'tɛlɪ,poʊrt/verbSchwa and roots

What it means: To transport instantly from one place to another.

In a sentence: The wizard used his magic wand to teleport to a faraway castle.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as telepoort or telepport.

Same family: teleportation, teleported, teleporting, transport, portal. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “teleport” was popularized in 1930s science fiction magazines, blending the Greek root “tele-” meaning “far” with the Latin root “portare” meaning “to carry,” so it literally suggests being ‘carried far away’ in an instant.

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