How to spell graph

hear itgraph/græf/nounHidden vowels

What it means: A visual representation of data or quantities.

In a sentence: Let's draw a graph to show how many apples each child picked.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as graf or graff.

Same family: graphing, graphed, graphable, graphical, graphically. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The verb "graph" comes from the noun "graph," which traces back to the Greek root "-graph" meaning "to write" or "to draw." So when you graph data, you are literally "drawing" or "writing" it in a visual form.

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