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How to spell great

What it means: Very good or enjoyable.

In a sentence: The cake tasted great at the party! ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as grate or greta.

Sounds like, but is not: grate. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: greater, greatest, greatly, greatness, greatnesses. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Great comes from Old English 'grēat', which originally meant 'big' or 'thick' rather than 'excellent.' Over time, its meaning shifted from physical size to describing importance and high quality.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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