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How to spell fine

What it means: Of good quality or satisfactory.

In a sentence: The cake tasted fine. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as fien or finee.

Same family: fines, fining, fineable, penalty, ticket. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The noun “fine” comes from Old French “fin,” meaning ‘end’ or ‘payment made to settle a claim,’ and originally referred to a payment that ended a legal dispute. Over time, it came to mean the money you must pay as a punishment for breaking a law or rule.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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