How to spell grain

Grain is spelled G-R-A-I-N.

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What it means: The small seeds of cereal plants.

In a sentence: The farmer planted seeds that grew into a field of golden grain.

Same family: grained, fine-grain, coarse-grain, grainy, granular. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "grain" comes from Latin "granum," meaning a seed or small particle. This is why many languages use similar forms of the word both for cereal seeds and for tiny pieces of material, like sand or wood texture.

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