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How to spell utilities

Utilities is spelled U-T-I-L-I-T-I-E-S.

What it means: Services like water and electricity provided to homes.

In a sentence: The utilities help us have lights and water at home. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear, and the order of ie.

Same family: utilize, utilization, useful, tool. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Utilities” comes from the Latin word *utilis*, meaning “useful.” In computing, the term was adopted to describe small, helpful programs that perform useful support tasks for the main software.

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