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How to spell parent

Parent is spelled P-A-R-E-N-T.

What it means: A mother or father of a child.

In a sentence: My parent helps me with my homework. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: parenting, parents, co-parent, single-parent, parental. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Parent comes from Old French and Latin words meaning 'to bring forth' or 'to produce.' Over time, English also began using it as a verb, meaning to raise and care for a child.

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