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How to spell travel

hear ittrav·el/'trævəl/verbSounds

What it means: To move from one place to another.

In a sentence: We will travel to the beach this weekend.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as traval or trivel.

Same family: travels, traveled, traveling, traveler, journey. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Travel comes from Middle English 'travailen,' which originally meant to labor or toil; in the past, long journeys were so hard that traveling felt like heavy work or suffering.

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