How to write envy or envy

At the time of writing certain words in our texts, it is normal that we have doubts about what is the correct way to do it. Especially, this can happen when at the time of pronouncing those terms we do not do everything well, which ends up making us doubt whether we should write them with some spellings or with others. In the following article we show you an example and we help you to solve how you write envy or embide .

envy

If we look for the term 'envy' in the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), we verify that it is registered and that it is a feminine noun that we normally use to refer to:

  • "Feeling of sadness or regret of the good of others".
  • "Emulation, desire for something that you do not have or own."

Examples:

  • My sister is leaving tomorrow for a trip, what envy she gives me.
  • I am envious of the apartment Luis has bought, it is on the beach and it is very spacious.

* embidia

On the contrary, when we look for the term 'embidia' in the dictionary, we quickly see that it is not collected and that, therefore, it is an incorrect word . In fact, we see a list of words that have similar writing, among which is the previous form. Therefore, we should always write 'envy' with '-nv-'.

To avoid making spelling errors of this kind, we advise you to memorize the following rule that establishes that before the consonant / -v / you should always write the letter / -n / and not the letter / -m /.