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How to spell beauty

Beauty is spelled B-E-A-U-T-Y. Beau plus TY: the E-A-U of beau, then T, Y.

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What it means: The quality of being pleasing to look at.

In a sentence: The garden is full of beauty with all the colorful flowers.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: beautiful, beautify, beautyful, beautician. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Beauty” comes from Old French “beaute,” from “beau” meaning “fair, lovely.” The spelling with “eau” reflects its French origin, where “eau” is pronounced like the English long O sound.

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