How to spell brain

Brain is spelled B-R-A-I-N.

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What it means: The organ that helps us think.

In a sentence: The brain helps us think and learn new things.

Same family: brainy, brainstorm, brainpower, brainwave, brainchild. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Brain comes from Old English “brægen,” meaning ‘brain’ or ‘skull,’ and it is related to similar old Germanic words. Interestingly, the word has kept almost the same meaning for over a thousand years, always connected to thinking and the head.

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