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How to spell predict

What it means: To say what will happen in the future.

In a sentence: The weather man can predict if it will rain tomorrow. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as predect or predikt.

Same family: prediction, predictable, unpredictable, predictor, predicting. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Predict comes from Latin roots: 'prae' meaning 'before' and 'dicere' meaning 'to say' or 'to tell'. So to predict literally means 'to say before' something happens.

Patterns it uses: Prefixes keep every letter

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