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How to spell united

hear itu·nit·ed/ju'naɪtɪd/adjectiveLong vowels

What it means: Joined together as one.

In a sentence: The team was united in their goal to win the game.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as unitied or unighted.

Same family: unite, uniting, unity, unification, unitedly. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “United” comes from the Latin word *unitus*, the past participle of *unire*, meaning “to make one.” Over time, English speakers began using “united” not only for groups or countries together as one, but also for married couples who are closely joined in life.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa) · Drop the e before a suffix? · Prefixes keep every letter

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