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How to spell vocabulary

Vocabulary is spelled V-O-C-A-B-U-L-A-R-Y.

What it means: The set of words known and used by a person.

In a sentence: I love learning new words to add to my vocabulary! ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: vocab, lexicon, terminology, wordlist, glossary. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Vocabulary comes from the Medieval Latin word 'vocabularium', meaning 'a list of words'. It is built on the Latin root 'vocare' or 'vox', meaning 'voice' or 'call', which also appears in words like 'vocal' and 'voice'.

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