How to spell wonderful

hear itwon·der·ful/'wəndərfəl/adjectiveRules and real life

What it means: Extremely good or impressive.

In a sentence: The rainbow is a wonderful sight in the sky.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as wonderfull or wonderfal.

Same family: wonder, wonderfully, wondrous, wonderment, wondering. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Wonderful” comes from the Old English word “wundor,” meaning a miracle or marvel, plus the suffix “-ful,” meaning “full of.” So it literally means “full of wonder.”

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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