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How to spell hand

What it means: The end part of the arm.

In a sentence: I painted my hand with bright colors. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as hande or handd.

Same family: hands, handed, handful, handy, handshake. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “hand” comes from Old English “hand,” which has Germanic roots and has kept almost the same form and meaning for over a thousand years.

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