How to spell exist

hear itex·ist/ɪɡ'zɪst/verbSilent and tricky

What it means: To be real, alive, or present.

In a sentence: Dinosaurs used to exist a long time ago.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as exsist or exsit.

Same family: existence, existing, existent, coexist, preexist. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Exist” comes from Latin *existere*, meaning “to step out” or “to appear,” which is why the word is often used when something comes into being or is real. It entered English in the 1600s through French and Latin philosophical writing.

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