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How to spell pack

hear itpack/pæk/verbRules and real life

What it means: To fill or load something tightly.

In a sentence: Can you help me pack my bag for the picnic?

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as pak or pac.

Same family: packed, packing, packer, package, compression. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Pack comes from a Middle Low German word meaning a bundle or load. Over time, English speakers began using it both for the thing you carry and for the action of pressing things tightly together.

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