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How to spell refund

What it means: An amount of money returned to a buyer.

In a sentence: The store gave me a refund for the toy I returned. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as refound or refond.

Same family: refunds, refunded, refunding, fund, refundable. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Refund” comes from Latin roots re- meaning “back” and fundere meaning “to pour,” so it originally had the idea of money being “poured back” to you. English began using “refund” in the 17th century for repaying money that had already been paid.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa) · Prefixes keep every letter

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