When you doubt how to write a word, the first thing you have to do is look up the word in the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) to find out if you are putting it correctly. On the Internet you put RAE and its official page jumps to you and in the upper right part there is a search engine in which you put the word you want to know about. If when you click you jump to a page that tells you that the written word does not exist or that it is not correct, it is because it is wrong, then your next step will be to find out how it is written.
You will solve this second step by putting the word in Word, since since it does not exist it should be in red and when you click on it the program gives you correct word options and so you can see how it is written.
So if you have doubts about how to spell embia or envy, you will only have to look it up in the RAE and you will see how the first option gives you an error and in the second it already informs you of its meaning. To know how to spell this word, you have to resort to the basic rules of spelling.
The doubt could come from whether to write with bo with v and with mo with n, but the spelling rules state that after n there is always v and that after m there is always by and not the other way around, so enbidia or emvidia would be other forms incorrect spelling of the word.
Therefore, you already know that myb always go together the same as nyv, so simply writing both words, the incorrect one that would be embidia and the correct one that is envy, one of them (the first) will have to appear incorrect in the RAE and underlined in Word, so you only have the other option.
Another way to find out is to put one of the two in Google and it will directly autocorrect the one that is not well written.
According to the spelling rules, the b comes after the m, so it embeds, according to these rules, it’s fine, the error is that this word is not with m or with b, so we only have the second option, which is with n and with v.
It is very easy to know how to spell embia or envy, because when one of the two is not accepted in the RAE, we know it is the other. And to make sure we can write it in Word and be 100% sure that the correct form is envy.
So if you have doubts, the first thing you always have to do is look at the RAE, and after knowing that it is misspelled, put it in Google or Word and they will give you options as to the correct way to put it.
Tips for writing embidia or envy
- Whenever you doubt how to write a word, it is better that you look at the Royal Spanish Academy to avoid problems.
- You could have downloaded an application on your mobile to know if you are writing it correctly. They are very useful when you doubt how words are written. More than anything, in the mobile Word, many times it does not correct the words that are misspelled, in the same way that it does not tell you when you have not put a tilde.
- If you ever don’t know exactly how a word is spelled and have no way of finding out, you can always use a synonym, maybe not exactly what you mean, but better come close before you misspell it.
- If the only way you have to find out how to spell embedia or envy is to ask someone, don’t be shy, we all have doubts about how to spell some words and nothing happens.
- Before starting to write any word, always think about how you think it sounds best. Many times it is necessary to say the word out loud to see how it sounds and to know the correct way to spell it.
- You can write the word on a piece of paper in the different ways you think it has, and thus, visually, it is usually much easier to recognize which one is correct.
- Always think about the basic rules of spelling and to make it easier for you, you can think of words that follow the same guidelines and that way it will be easier for you. It may be a little more difficult at first, but with time and practicing with this type of thing it will become much easier.
- Before going crazy with a word that you are not completely sure of how to spell, it is always better to stop and think and see which of the options is more logical and which one suits you the most. Always think about it and then if you have doubts, you can look it up to find out if you were right.