How to spell various

hear itvar·i·ous/'vɜriəs/adjectiveLong vowels

What it means: Different kinds or types.

In a sentence: The zoo has various animals to see.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as varous or vairous.

Same family: varied, variety, vary, variation, variously. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Various” comes from Latin *varius*, meaning “different” or “changeable.” It is related to the word “variety,” which keeps the sense of having many different kinds of things.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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