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How to spell carefully

What it means: With great attention and caution.

In a sentence: She carefully painted the picture with bright colors. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double l. Often misspelled as carefuly or carfully.

Same family: careful, careless, carefulness. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Carefully comes from the adjective "careful" plus the adverb suffix "-ly." "Care" comes from Old English "caru," meaning sorrow or worry, so being "careful" originally had the sense of being full of care or concern.

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