How to spell rule

Rule is spelled R-U-L-E.

hear itrule/rul/nounLong vowels

What it means: A guideline for behavior.

In a sentence: The school's rule is to be kind to everyone.

Same family: rules, ruling, ruled, ruler, regulation. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "rule" comes from Old French "reule" and Latin "regula," meaning a straight stick or standard used for measuring, which later took on the abstract sense of a guideline or law. In linguistics, this idea of a "standard" was extended to describe the patterns that govern how sounds, words, and sentences are formed.

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