How to spell count

hear itcount/kaʊnt/verbLong vowels

What it means: Determine the number or amount of.

In a sentence: I can count all the stars in the sky.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as counte or cuont.

Same family: counting, counter, discount, recount, account. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Count comes from Old French 'conter', meaning 'to tell, relate, or enumerate', which itself goes back to Latin 'computare' meaning 'to calculate'. The same Latin root also gave us the modern English word 'computer'.

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