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How to spell prove

What it means: To provide evidence that something is true.

In a sentence: I can prove I did my homework by showing it to you. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as pruve or proove.

Same family: proved, proven, proving, proof, disprove. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Prove” comes from Latin *probare*, meaning “to test” or “to approve.” The related noun “proof” keeps that older sense of testing something to see if it is true or strong, as in “proof of concept” or “waterproof.”

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