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How to spell heat

hear itheat/hit/nounSounds

What it means: Warmth or high temperature.

In a sentence: The sun gives us heat to stay warm.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as heet or heate.

Same family: heated, heating, reheat, heater, heatwave. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The verb "heat" comes from Old English "hǣtan," related to the noun "hætu" meaning "warmth" or "hotness." It is part of a very old family of words about warmth that also connects to German "Hitze" (heat).

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