How to spell fawn

hear itfawn/fɔn/nounLong vowels

What it means: A young deer that is not yet fully grown.

In a sentence: The fawn walked gently through the forest with its mother.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as faun or fon.

Same family: tan, beige, buff, sand-colored, neutral-toned. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: English "fawn" originally came from Old French and meant a young deer; because young deer often have light brown coats, the word later developed the color meaning of a pale, yellowish-brown shade.

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