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How to spell cried

hear it/kraɪd/verbLong vowels

What it means: To shed tears and make sounds of distress.

In a sentence: The baby cried when she was hungry.

The part people get wrong

Watch for the order of ie. Often misspelled as cryed or crid.

Same family: crying, cries, crier, sob, weep. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Cried” comes from the verb “cry,” which entered Middle English from Old French ‘crier,’ meaning ‘to call out or shout.’ Over time, English speakers began using it more specifically for weeping with tears.

Patterns it uses: i before e? · Drop the e before a suffix?

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