How to spell treatment

hear ittreat·ment/'tritmənt/nounPrefixes and work

What it means: Care given to improve health.

In a sentence: The doctor gave her special treatment to help her feel better.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as tretment or treatmant.

Same family: treat, treated, treating, treatable, mistreatment. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Treatment” comes from the Old French word “traitement,” which comes from the verb “traiter,” meaning “to handle” or “to deal with.” It’s related to the English word “treat,” so treatment literally began as the way you handle or deal with a person or problem.

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