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How to spell clean

What it means: To remove dirt or impurities.

In a sentence: Please clean your room before dinner. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as cleen or clen.

Same family: cleaned, cleaning, cleaner, cleanest, unclean. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Clean comes from Old English “clǣne,” meaning pure or free from dirt or guilt. Long ago it could also describe a person’s character, not just how tidy something was.

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