Five Hard Words Play today

Tier four of five

How to spell parenthesis

What it means

a curved bracket mark

How it sounds

/pərˈɛnθəsɪs/

Why it catches people out

Ends -esis, with a th before it.

The spellings people reach for

In a sentence

The note sat inside a parenthesis.

First appeared in

Puzzle #97 — October 29, 2026