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How to spell length

hear itlength/lɛŋkθ/nounRules and real life

What it means: The measurement of how long something is from end to end.

In a sentence: The length of the playground slide is very long.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as lenght or lenth.

Same family: long, lengthen, lengthy, shortness, distance. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Length comes from Old English “lengðu,” related to the adjective “long.” Over time, English kept the idea of “how long something is” but shortened the spelling to the modern form “length.”

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