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How to spell candy

Candy is spelled C-A-N-D-Y.

What it means: A sweet treat made mostly of sugar.

In a sentence: I got a yummy candy from the store. ▶

Same family: candies, candied, candymaker, candybar, sweets. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “candy” comes from Old French “sucre candi,” from Arabic “qandī,” meaning crystallized sugar. It originally referred to sugar that had been boiled and hardened into crystals before becoming a general word for sweet treats.

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