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How to spell request

What it means: To ask politely for something.

In a sentence: Can I request a picture to color in? ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as reques or requset.

Same family: requested, requesting, requester, requestion (nonstandard, but confused with ‘question’), require (related in meaning: to need). If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Request” comes from Old French “requeste,” from Latin “requaerere / requirere,” meaning ‘to seek again’ or ‘to ask for.’ It’s related to the word “quest,” which originally meant a search or hunt for something.

Patterns it uses: Prefixes keep every letter

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