How to spell growth

hear itgrowth/groʊθ/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: The process of increasing in size or number.

In a sentence: The little plant shows growth every day.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as groth or growh.

Same family: growing, grown, growths, overgrowth, regrowth. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Growth” comes from Old English roots related to the verb “grow,” which originally meant ‘to flourish, get bigger, or increase.’ It’s related to other Germanic words with the same idea of becoming larger or stronger over time.

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