How to spell telescope

hear ittel·e·scope/'tɛlɪ,skoʊp/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: A magnifier of images of distant objects.

In a sentence: The astronaut looked at the stars with a telescope.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as teliscope or teleskope.

Same family: telescopes, telescopic, microscope, periscope. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "telescope" comes from Greek roots: "tēle" meaning "far" and "skopein" meaning "to look at" or "to watch." It was first used in the early 1600s when scientists began building instruments to see distant objects in the sky.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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