How to spell training

hear ittrain·ing/'treɪniŋ/nounLong vowels

What it means: The process of learning skills or knowledge.

In a sentence: The puppy is in training to learn new tricks.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as trianing or trainning.

Same family: trained, trainer, retraining, training course, practice. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Training” comes from the verb “train,” which originally meant to draw out or drag in Old French and Latin. Over time, the meaning shifted to ‘guiding’ or ‘teaching’ someone or something in a certain direction, like training a person or training a dog.

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