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How to spell front

Front is spelled F-R-O-N-T.

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What it means: The side that is forward or prominent.

In a sentence: The dog sits in front of the house.

Same family: fronts, fronted, fronting, infront, frontward. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Front” comes from Old French “front,” meaning forehead or face, and from Latin “frons,” also meaning forehead. That’s why we still say things like the “front” of a building, as if it has a face.

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