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How to spell drank

What it means: The past tense of drink.

In a sentence: She drank a big glass of milk. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as drenk or drankk.

Same family: drinks, drinking, drunk, drinkable. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Drank” is the simple past tense of “drink” and comes from Old English “drincan,” meaning ‘to swallow liquid.’ The vowel change from “drink” to “drank” is an example of an old pattern in English called a strong verb, where the vowel changes instead of just adding -ed.

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