Words

Having trouble with a word that has multiple meanings or spellings? Struggling with a word that can be both a noun and a verb, or a noun and an adjective, and et cetera? Read below. If you believe an entry is missing, make a pull request.

Note

This page is a work-in-progress.

Login is a noun. Enter your Marketo login credentials.
Log in is a phrasal verb or verb phrase. Log in to the AWS console.

Further examples

Login:

When you login to your account, click the navigation menu. ❌
Use your login credentials to access the developer portal. ✅

Log in:

Take note of your log in details for later use in Matillion ETL. ❌
Navigate to the Stripe developer portal and log in with your login credentials. ✅

Log in to versus log into

Always use log in to and not log into.

Log into your Salesforce account. ❌
Login to your Stripe account. ❌
Log in to your Matillion account. ✅

Never use signin as a noun the way you would use login.
Never use sign into as a verb phrase.
Only use sign in to instead of log in to if directly quoting a UI element from another service or directly quoting instructions from other documentation.

Be able to

Consider usage carefully. If writing a phrase like Users will be able to, consider if anything is lost if you instead just write Users can.

Utilize

Don't use.

Use use instead.