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How to spell triangle

hear ittri·an·gle/'traɪ,æŋɡəl/nounStarter

What it means: A three-sided geometric shape.

In a sentence: The kite had a colorful triangle in the middle.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as triangel or tringle.

Same family: triangular, right-angled triangle, equilateral triangle, isosceles triangle, polygon. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Triangle comes from Latin roots: 'tri-' meaning 'three' and 'angulus' meaning 'corner' or 'angle.' So a triangle is literally a 'three-corner' shape.

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