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How to spell pack
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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