How to spell visual

hear itvis·u·al/'vɪʒuəl/adjectiveSilent and tricky

What it means: Relating to or using sight.

In a sentence: We used our eyes for a fun visual game with colorful pictures.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as vizual or visuel.

Same family: vision, visualize, visualization, visuality, visuals. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Visual” comes from the Latin word “visualis,” meaning “of sight,” which is based on “videre,” meaning “to see.” It’s related to other seeing words like “vision,” “video,” and even “evident” (something you can clearly see).

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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