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How to spell broil

hear itbroil/brɔɪl/verbLong vowels

What it means: To cook food under direct heat.

In a sentence: We can broil the fish for dinner in the oven.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as broyle or broal.

Same family: broiling, broiled, broiler, bake, roast. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Broil” comes from Old French *bruiller* or *bruller*, meaning “to burn” or “to roast.” Over time, English speakers extended its use from cooking over direct heat to describing people suffering in extreme heat, like when you broil in the sun.

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