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How to spell transcript

Transcript is spelled T-R-A-N-S-C-R-I-P-T.

hear ittran·script/'trænskrɪpt/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: A written record of dictated speech.

In a sentence: The teacher gave us a transcript of the school play.

Same family: transcribe, transcription, manuscript, subscription, describe. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Transcript comes from Latin roots: 'trans' meaning 'across' and 'scribere' meaning 'to write.' It literally refers to something that has been 'written across,' or copied from one form into another.

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