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How to spell farther

hear itfar·ther/'fɑrðər/adverbSchwa and roots

What it means: At or to a greater distance.

In a sentence: The park is farther away than the library.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as further or farher.

Sounds like, but is not: further. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: far, farthest, farthermore, distance, distant. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Farther” developed as a comparative form of “far,” influenced by the old word “further.” In modern English, many speakers use “farther” more for physical distance and “further” more for abstract or figurative distance, though historically the two words overlapped much more.

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