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How to spell fat

Fat is spelled F-A-T.

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What it means: Having excess bodily weight.

In a sentence: The cat is fat and happy.

Same family: fatty, fatten, fattened, fattening, fatness. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The verb "fat" comes from the Old English word "fǣtt," meaning "made plump" or "well-fed." Over time, the verb "to fat" became rare in everyday English, while the adjective "fat" stayed very common.

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