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How to spell dessert

hear itdes·sert/dɪ'zɜrt/nounRules and real life

What it means: A sweet food eaten at the end of a meal.

In a sentence: For her birthday, Mia had a big slice of chocolate cake for dessert.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double s. Often misspelled as desert or dessart.

Sounds like, but is not: desert. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: desserts, desserted, dessert menu, sweet, pudding. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Dessert comes from the French word "desservir," meaning "to clear the table," because dessert was traditionally served after the main dishes were removed. Over time, the word came to refer only to the sweet course itself.

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