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How to spell fried

Fried is spelled F-R-I-E-D.

What it means: Cooked in hot oil or fat.

In a sentence: We had fried chicken for dinner. ▶

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Same family: frying, fryer, deep-fried, pan-fried. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Fried” comes from the verb “fry,” which entered English from Old French “frire,” ultimately from Latin “frigere,” meaning “to roast or fry.” Many European languages have similar words for frying that go back to this same Latin root.

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