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How to spell flame

hear itflame/fleɪm/nounSounds

What it means: A visible, hot gas from burning.

In a sentence: The orange flame danced on the candle.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as flaim or fleme.

Same family: flames, flamed, flaming, flameproof, flamingly. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Flame” comes from Latin *flamma*, meaning ‘a blaze or fire.’ It is related to words like “flaming” and even “inflame,” which can describe both real fires and strong emotions.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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