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How to spell reform

hear itre·form/rɪ'fɔrm/verbPrefixes and work

What it means: To take a new shape or form.

In a sentence: The caterpillar will reform into a beautiful butterfly.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as reforme or refrom.

Same family: reformation, reformer, reformed, reforming, reformist. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Reform” comes from Latin roots meaning “to shape again” (re- ‘again’ + formare ‘to form’). Over time, its meaning shifted from literally reshaping something to changing bad systems or behavior into better ones.

Patterns it uses: Prefixes keep every letter

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