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How to spell kneel

Kneel is spelled K-N-E-E-L.

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What it means: To rest on one or both knees.

In a sentence: Every night, I kneel by my bed to say goodnight.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double e, and a silent k.

Same family: kneels, kneeling, knelt, knee, kneecap. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Kneel comes from Old English "cnēowlian," related to the noun "knee." The silent k in both "knee" and "kneel" used to be pronounced hundreds of years ago, but over time English speakers dropped the k sound and kept the old spelling.

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