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How to spell field

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

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

The part people get wrong

Watch for the order of ie. Often misspelled as feild or fieled.

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.

Patterns it uses: i before e?

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