How to spell visit

hear itvis·it/'vɪzɪt/verbSilent and tricky

What it means: To go see someone or something.

In a sentence: We will visit the zoo to see the animals.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as vizit or viset.

Same family: visits, visited, visiting, visitor, visitations. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Visit comes from Latin 'visitare', meaning 'to go to see' or 'to frequent', which itself is from 'videre', meaning 'to see'. This is the same ancient root that appears in words like 'video' and 'visual'.

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