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How to spell eyesight

hear iteye·sight/'aɪ,saɪt/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: Normal use of the faculty of vision.

In a sentence: A good night's sleep helps keep your eyesight strong.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as eyesite or eyesigt.

Same family: eye, sight, eyes, eyesighted, vision. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Eyesight is a compound of the words “eye” (from Old English *ēage*) and “sight” (from Old English *siht*), literally meaning “eye-sight” or “what the eye sees.” Over time, it has come to refer specifically to the ability or power of seeing.

Patterns it uses: i before e?

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