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How to spell field

Field is spelled F-I-E-L-D.

What it means: An area of open land, especially for farming or sports.

In a sentence: The kids played soccer in the big field. ▶

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Same family: fieldwork, fieldworker, fielded, fielding, discipline. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Field comes from Old English "feld," which first meant open land or plain. Over time, the meaning expanded from physical land to an "area" of study or activity, which is how we get the modern academic sense of a "field" of knowledge.

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