How to spell weekly

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What it means: Happening or done once every seven days.

In a sentence: We have a weekly game night with my family.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double e. Often misspelled as weakly or weekely.

Same family: weekend, weekday, biweekly, monthly, daily. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Weekly comes from the noun “week,” which goes back to Old English and old Germanic roots meaning a cycle of seven days. The suffix “-ly” was added to show how often something happens, just like in “daily” and “monthly.”

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