How to spell bound

hear itbound/baʊnd/adjectiveLong vowels

What it means: Certain or determined to do something.

In a sentence: The puppy was bound to catch the ball in the park.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as bownd or bounde.

Same family: boundary, border, edge, bounded, bounding. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Bound” in the sense of forming a boundary comes from Old French and Latin roots meaning “limit” or “border.” Interestingly, English also has a different “bound” meaning “leap,” which comes from a separate French root, so the two common meanings have different histories even though they look the same.

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