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How to spell eat

Eat is spelled E-A-T.

What it means: To take in food.

In a sentence: I like to eat juicy apples. ▶

Same family: eats, eating, eaten, eater, meal. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Eat” comes from Old English “etan,” which is related to similar words in German and Dutch, showing how basic food words often stay very close to their ancient roots across languages.

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