How to spell rest

hear itrest/rɛst/verbSounds

What it means: To take a break to recover energy.

In a sentence: After playing all day, it's important to rest and relax.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as resst or restt.

Same family: rests, rested, resting, restful, restless. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Rest comes from Old English 'ræst,' meaning a place for lying down or staying. Over time, its meaning expanded from the place of support to the action of relaxing or stopping activity, including sitting or perching on something.

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