# appropriate

> English word · Verb · IPA /əˈpɹəʊ.pɹi.eɪt/ · frequency rank #2,145

## Definitions
1. To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
2. To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
3. To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
4. To make suitable to; to suit.

## Etymology
From Middle English appropriaten, from appropriat (“appropriated”) + -en, borrowed from Latin appropriātus, perfect passive participle of appropriō (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) + propriō (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix).

## Easily confused with
- **appropriately** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/appropriate-vs-appropriately)

## Common misspellings (14)
`apporpriate`, `appropirate`, `approppriate`, `appropraite`, `appropriaet`, `appropriatte`, `appropritae`, `approprriate`, `approrpiate`, `apprporiate`, `apprropriate`, `apropriate`, `aprpopriate`, `papropriate`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/appropriate