How to spell fair

Fair is spelled F-A-I-R.

hear itfair/fɜr/nounRules and real life

What it means: A public event with rides and games.

In a sentence: We went to the fair and rode the Ferris wheel.

Not to be confused with: fare, a different word.

Same family: fair copy, fair draft, rough draft, manuscript, neat. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The use of "fair" to describe a clean or nearly error-free manuscript comes from an older sense of "fair" meaning "beautiful" or "pleasant to look at." A "fair copy" was the attractive, final version of a text, ready to be shown to others or sent to the printer.

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