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How to spell flight

What it means: The act of flying through the air.

In a sentence: The birds took flight into the bright blue sky. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as flite or fliht.

Same family: fly, flier, airline, departure, arrival. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Flight comes from Old English “flyht,” related to the verb “to fly.” Over time, its meaning expanded from the act of flying itself to a scheduled journey by airplane.

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