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How to spell plane

hear itplane/pleɪn/nounSounds

What it means: A vehicle that flies in the air.

In a sentence: The plane flew high in the blue sky.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as plain or plaen.

Sounds like, but is not: plain. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: hand plane, block plane, jack plane, planer, woodworking. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: This kind of "plane" comes from Latin "planus," meaning "flat" or "level," because the tool makes wood surfaces flat. The same root also appears in words like "plain" and "plane" in mathematics (a flat surface).

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