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How to spell kind

hear itkind/kaɪnd/adjectiveSounds

What it means: Having a gentle and considerate nature.

In a sentence: The kind teacher gave everyone a gold star.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as kinde or kined.

Same family: kinder, kindest, kindly, kindness, unkind. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Kind comes from an Old English word meaning ‘natural, native, or related by family.’ Over time, its meaning shifted from ‘of the same type’ to describing a gentle, caring personality.

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