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How to spell exceed

Exceed is spelled E-X-C-E-E-D.

What it means: To be greater in number or amount than.

In a sentence: The balloons exceed the number of fingers on my hands. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double e.

Same family: exceeds, exceeded, exceeding, excess, excessive. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Exceed” comes from Latin *excedere*, from *ex-* meaning “out” and *cedere* meaning “to go,” so it originally meant “to go beyond.” It is part of a family of Latin-based words like “proceed,” “recede,” and “succeed,” all built from the same root *cedere*.

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