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How to spell rabbit

Rabbit is spelled R-A-B-B-I-T. The part people get wrong: double B.

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What it means: A small, burrowing animal with long ears.

In a sentence: The rabbit hopped across the green field.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double b.

Same family: rabbit fur, rabbit coat, rabbit-skin, hare, fur. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Rabbit comes from Middle English ‘rabet’, a diminutive of an Old French word meaning ‘young rabbit’. The word originally referred to the animal itself, and later was also used to mean its fur used in clothing and hats.

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