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How to spell funeral

Funeral is spelled F-U-N-E-R-A-L.

What it means: A ceremony held for a person who has died.

In a sentence: Our family gathered to remember and honor Grandpa at his funeral. ▶

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Same family: funerals, funeral-home, funeral-service, memorial, burial. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Funeral” comes from Latin *funus*, meaning “burial, funeral rites, or corpse.” In older English, related words were used more broadly for death rituals and ceremonies, but today “funeral” usually refers specifically to the ceremony when someone is buried or cremated.

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