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How to spell haunt

What it means: To appear in or visit a place as a ghost.

In a sentence: The spooky ghost likes to haunt the old house. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as hant or haunte.

Same family: haunted, haunting, hauntingly, hauntings. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Haunt” comes from Old French *hanter*, meaning “to frequent” or “to be familiar with,” so it originally suggested a place someone visited often, not just a ghost. Over time, English speakers extended the meaning to spirits that ‘frequent’ a place and to memories that won’t leave you alone.

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