How to spell fault

hear itfault/fɔlt/nounLong vowels

What it means: Responsibility for a mistake or bad event.

In a sentence: It was not my fault that the cup fell.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as falt or faulte.

Same family: faults, faulted, faulting, faulty, faultless. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Fault comes from Old French “faute,” meaning a lack or a failure, which is also related to the word “default.” In geology, the same word is used for a crack in the Earth’s crust where rocks move, showing how one term can grow to cover very different ideas.

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