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How to spell bigger

What it means: Larger in size compared to something else.

In a sentence: The elephant is bigger than the hippo. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double g. Often misspelled as biger or biggerr.

Same family: biggest, big, bigness, larger, huge. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Bigger” comes from the adjective “big,” which appeared in Middle English and may be related to Old Norse words meaning ‘strong’ or ‘powerful.’ The -er ending is the regular Old English comparative ending, used to compare two things.

Patterns it uses: Double the consonant before a suffix?

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