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How to spell kitchen

Kitchen is spelled K-I-T-C-H-E-N.

What it means: A room for cooking and preparing meals.

In a sentence: The cake is baking in the kitchen. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: kitchenette, kitchenware, kitchenette, cook, cooking. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Kitchen comes from Old English 'cycene', related to the Latin word 'coquina' meaning 'a place to cook'. Over time, the spelling and pronunciation changed, but it has always referred to the room where food is prepared.

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