How to spell first

hear itfirst/fɜrst/adjectiveStarter

What it means: Coming before all others in time or order.

In a sentence: I got the first slice of cake.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as ferst or frist.

Same family: firstly, firstborn, first-rate, first place, first base. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “First” comes from Old English “fyrst,” meaning ‘foremost’ or ‘at the beginning.’ Its sports meaning in baseball grew naturally from the idea of the ‘first’ base a runner must touch.

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