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How to spell blend

hear itblend/blɛnd/verbSounds

What it means: To mix different things together into one.

In a sentence: She likes to blend strawberries and bananas to make a smoothie.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as bland or blendd.

Same family: blends, blended, blending, blender, mixture. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Blend” comes from Old Norse “blanda,” meaning “to mix or stir together.” It first entered English in the Middle Ages, originally used for mixing liquids or colors before expanding to ideas and cultures.

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