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How to spell fewer

What it means: A smaller number of something.

In a sentence: There are fewer apples on the tree today. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as feewer or fewerre.

Same family: fewest, few, a few, very few, less. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Fewer” comes from Old English “fēawra,” the comparative form of “fēawe,” meaning “few.” In modern English, careful writers use “fewer” with countable things (fewer cars) and “less” with uncountable things (less water).

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