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How to spell balance

Balance is spelled B-A-L-A-N-C-E.

What it means: The ability to stay upright and steady without falling.

In a sentence: The tightrope walker needs good balance to stay on the rope. ▶

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Same family: balanced, balancing, imbalanced, equilibrium, stability. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Balance” comes from the Latin phrase *bilanx*, meaning “having two pans,” originally referring to a scale with two dishes. Watchmakers later used the same word for the oscillating wheel that “weighs out” equal units of time.

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