How to spell trial

hear ittri·al/'traɪəl/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: An event to test something or someone.

In a sentence: The puppy went through a fun trial to learn new tricks.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as trail or triel.

Same family: trials, trialed, trialling, try, experiment. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Trial” comes from the Old French word “trier,” meaning “to pick out” or “to test,” and is related to the idea of separating good from bad. Over time, it came to mean testing something in experiments and also judging a case in court.

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