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How to spell ant

What it means: A small social insect that lives in colonies.

In a sentence: The ant is carrying a crumb back to its home. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as annt or antt.

Same family: ants, ant hill, ant nest, ant colony. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "ant" comes from Old English "æmette" and is related to words in many Germanic languages; over time, it shortened in English to the simple three-letter word we use today.

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