Equipped

How to spell equipped

8 letters · 2 syllables

46 of the 249 people asked to spell equipped in Spelling Garden got it wrong the first time.

The most common mistake is equiped. The letters people get wrong are highlighted.

equiped equipped

What people typed instead

• equiped23 people
• equipt6 people

How to pronounce equipped

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does equipped mean?

1. verbPast tense and past participle of equip: supplied with the tools, skills, or resources needed for a purpose.

Equipped in a sentence

• The new kitchen came fully equipped with modern appliances.

• The training course left her well equipped to handle difficult clients.

Where does equipped come from?

Language of origin: French

This word goes back to the French verb équiper, meaning 'to fit out' or 'to supply', which was first used about fitting out a ship for a voyage. The French in turn most likely borrowed it from Old Norse skipa, meaning 'to arrange' or 'to man a vessel', a word built on skip, the Norse word for 'ship'. English took the verb in during the sixteenth century, initially in the same nautical sense of stocking and crewing a vessel before it broadened to mean supplying a person or place with whatever they need. The buried sea-going origin links equip to the everyday word 'ship'. The spelling trap lives in the ending: because the final syllable of equip is stressed and ends in a single vowel plus 'p', that 'p' doubles before the suffix, giving the double-p 'equipped' rather than the tempting single-p 'equiped'.

How the word is built

• equip- (from French équiper: to fit out)
• -p- (doubled consonant before the suffix)
• -ed (past tense/participle)

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Of the Spelling Garden players who got equipped wrong the first time, this is how many also got each of these wrong.

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