How to spell hundred

hear ithun·dred/'həndrɪd/nounLong vowels

What it means: The number that comes after ninety-nine.

In a sentence: There are one hundred candies in the jar.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as hunderd or hundrid.

Same family: hundreds, hundredth, one hundred, a hundred, three hundred. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "hundred" comes from Old English "hundred," which originally could mean a group of one hundred or sometimes one hundred and twenty. It is related to old Germanic words like Old Norse "hundrað" with a similar meaning.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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