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How to spell reach

hear itreach/riʧ/verbLong vowels

What it means: To extend one's hand or body to touch.

In a sentence: Can you reach the top shelf?

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as rech or reech.

Same family: reaches, reaching, reached, outreach, unreachable. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Reach comes from Old English “ræcan,” meaning to stretch out or extend. It’s related to German “reichen,” showing how Germanic languages share similar roots for the idea of stretching or extending.

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