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How to spell heard

Heard is spelled H-E-A-R-D.

What it means: To perceive sound with the ears.

In a sentence: I heard a bird singing in the tree. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: hearing, heard-of, misheard, overheard, listener. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Heard” comes from the Old English verb “hieran,” meaning “to hear, listen, or obey.” Over many centuries the spelling changed, but the silent ‘a’ in “hear/heard” still shows its historical connection to earlier forms of the word.

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