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How to spell create

hear itcre·ate/kri'eɪt/verbLong vowels

What it means: To make or bring something into existence.

In a sentence: Let's create a fun art project together!

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as creat or crate.

Same family: creator, creation, creative, creativity, recreate. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Create comes from the Latin word *creare*, meaning ‘to make, bring forth, or produce.’ The same root also gives us words like ‘creator’ and ‘creature,’ all connected to the idea of bringing something into existence.

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