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How to spell noise

hear itnoise/nɔɪz/nounLong vowels

What it means: A sound that is loud or unpleasant.

In a sentence: The noise of the drum was loud and exciting.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as noice or nois.

Same family: noisy, noisily, noisiness, background noise, white noise. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Noise comes from the Old French word “noise,” meaning quarrel or brawl, and possibly from Latin “nausea,” meaning seasickness. Over time, its meaning shifted from the idea of an unpleasant disturbance to the unwanted sound we think of today.

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