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If you’re wondering whether to write privilege or priviledge, you’re not alone. Many words in the English language are tricky to spell, including this one.
So, which spelling are you supposed to use?
The correct spelling is privilege, with no D before the G.
Read on to learn more about how to spell the word privilege correctly.
How Do You Spell Privilege?
Privilege is a noun that means a special advantage, honor, or ability that’s only granted to a specific person or group.
It’s easy to misspell privilege as priviledge, since ledge is a correct spelling in some English words, such as knowledge. Unfortunately, priviledge isn’t a real English word; it’s just a common misspelling.
Here are a few examples of what the correct and incorrect spellings look like:
Incorrect: It’s a priviledge to be able to study with such a great teacher.
Correct: It’s a privilege to be able to study with such a great teacher.
Incorrect: Don’t forget that being here is a priviledge, not a right.
Correct: Don’t forget that being here is a privilege, not a right.
Incorrect: I grew up with a lot of wealth and priviledge.
Correct: I grew up with a lot of wealth and privilege.
How Do You Spell Privileged?
If you know how to spell the word privilege, it’s easy to spell its adjective form, privileged. All you have to do is add a D at the end.
Here are a few examples of what the correct and incorrect spellings look like:
Incorrect: She wanted her daughter to have a sheltered and priviledged life.
Correct: She wanted her daughter to have a sheltered and privileged life.
Incorrect: The governor has a priviledged position.
Correct: The governor has a privileged position.
Incorrect: I feel priviledged to have been given this opportunity.
Correct: I feel privileged to have been given this opportunity.
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Examples of the Correct Spelling of Privilege in Sentences
The best way to remember how to use a word is to see it in action! Here are some examples of privilege in sentences from popular English books.
“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”—The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
“Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.”—Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan
“And I realized—I realized how badly I'd been treated before, if my standards had become so low. If the freedom I'd been granted felt like a privilege and not an inherent right.”—A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
“Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”—A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
“Love is not a gift. It is a diploma. A diploma conferring certain privileges: the privilege of expressing love and the privilege of receiving it.”—Paradise by Toni Morrison
“Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind.”—Educated by Tara Westover
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