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How to spell feedback

What it means: Response to an inquiry.

In a sentence: I gave my feedback on the yummy cookies. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double e. Often misspelled as feed back or feedbak.

Same family: feed, feeding, response, comment, review. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “feedback” comes from engineering in the early 1900s, where it described signals fed back into a system, such as in radios and amplifiers. Over time, its meaning expanded to include opinions or responses given back to a person, product, or idea.

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