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How to spell quiet

hear itqui·et/'kwaɪɪt/adjectiveRules and real life

What it means: Free from disturbance or noise.

In a sentence: The library is a quiet place to read.

The part people get wrong

Watch for the order of ie. Often misspelled as quite or quiete.

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

Same family: quietly, quietness, quieted, quieting, quietest. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Quiet comes from Latin 'quietus,' meaning 'calm' or 'at rest.' It originally described both peaceful places and people who were free from worry or disturbance.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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