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How to spell drank

Drank is spelled D-R-A-N-K.

What it means: The past tense of drink.

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

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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