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How to spell feign

Feign is spelled F-E-I-G-N.

hear itfeign/feɪn/verbSilent and tricky

What it means: To pretend to feel or be something.

In a sentence: The clever fox tried to feign sleep to trick the hunter.

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Same family: feigned, feigning, pretend, simulate, fake. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Feign” comes from Old French *feindre*, meaning “to pretend or shirk,” which itself goes back to Latin *fingere*, “to shape or form.” That same Latin root also gave us “fiction,” “figure,” and “effigy,” all related to things that are shaped or made up.

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