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How to spell claim

What it means: To assert a right to something.

In a sentence: I claim this piece of cake as mine! ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as claime or clame.

Same family: claims, claimer, claiming, claimed, claimant. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Claim” comes from the Latin word *clamare*, meaning “to shout or cry out,” because a claim was something you called out loudly in public. Over time, it came to mean a demand, a right, or a statement that something is true.

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