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How to spell paint

Paint is spelled P-A-I-N-T.

hear itpaint/peɪnt/verbSounds

What it means: To apply a liquid to create a picture.

In a sentence: I like to paint colorful pictures.

Same family: paints, painting, painter, painted, repaint. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "paint" comes from Old French "peint" and Latin "pingere," meaning "to decorate" or "to embroider." It originally referred to coloring and decorating surfaces long before modern house paint existed.

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