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How to spell might

What it means: To possibly do or be something.

In a sentence: I might eat an apple for a snack. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as mite or mightt.

Same family: mighty, mightiest, power, strength. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The noun “might” comes from Old English “miht” or “meaht,” meaning power or ability. It is related to the verb “may,” which originally also carried a sense of having power to do something.

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