How to spell farmer

hear itfar·mer/'fɑrmər/nounRules and real life

What it means: A person who grows crops or raises animals.

In a sentence: The farmer grows tasty vegetables in his big garden.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as farmerr or famer.

Same family: farming, farms, farmland, farmhouse, farmworker. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Farmer comes from the Old French word “fermier,” meaning a person who collects taxes or rents. Over time in English, the meaning shifted to someone who works the land and raises crops or animals.

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