How to spell verdict

hear itver·dict/'vɜrdɪkt/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: The findings of a jury on issues of fact.

In a sentence: The jury gave their verdict after the trial.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as verdic or verdickt.

Same family: jury, judgment, decision, sentence, ruling. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Verdict” comes from Latin through Old French: from *verus* meaning “true” and *dicere* meaning “to say.” It literally meant a “true saying” or “true statement,” which fits its modern use as the final, true decision of a jury.

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