Seperately or separately?
Did you mean separately? Here's the right spelling and how to remember it.
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seperately
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separately
Correct spelling: separately. Misspelling: seperately.
letters the misspelling gets wrong or leaves out letters that shouldn't be there
Memory tip
Separate + ly: there's "a rat" in separate, and the E stays.
Why people write “seperately”
The misspelling “seperately” is only one letter off: it writes E where separately has A, an easy slip because in an unstressed syllable both vowels can sound like the same soft "uh".
Spell-checkers catch the mistake in a document, but not in a handwritten note, a text message or a word game. Writing the word out a few times while saying the tricky part aloud is the quickest way to make separately automatic.
Other misspellings of “separately”
People also write “separatly”. Here is where each one goes wrong.
“separatly”
Correct spelling: separately. Misspelling: separatly.
letters the misspelling gets wrong or leaves out letters that shouldn't be there
The misspelling “separatly” is only one letter off: it leaves out the E.
What does “separately” mean?
separately adverb
- apart from others
“taken individually, the rooms were, in fact, square”
Synonyms:individuallysinglyseverally
Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Full dictionary entry
“Separately” in a sentence
- Wash the dark clothes separately.
- Taken individually, the rooms were, in fact, square.
Is “separately” a playable word?
15 points in Scrabble · 16 in Words With Friends
- Scrabble (US)
- Scrabble (UK)
- Words With Friends
“seperately” is not accepted in any of these games. See every word you can make from SEPARATELY.