How to spell therapy

Therapy is spelled T-H-E-R-A-P-Y.

hear itther·a·py/'θɛrəpi/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: Treatment to help with physical or mental health problems.

In a sentence: Going to therapy is like a workout for your mind and heart.

Same family: therapist, therapeutic, psychotherapy, physiotherapy, therapeuticallly. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Therapy comes from the Greek word 'therapeia,' which meant 'healing' or 'medical treatment,' and it originally also had the sense of 'service' or 'attendance'—as in carefully looking after someone to help them recover.

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