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How to spell seen

What it means: To have perceived with the eyes.

In a sentence: I have seen a rainbow in the sky. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double e. Often misspelled as sean or seenn.

Same family: see, seeing, saw, sight. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Seen” is the past participle of the Old English verb “sēon,” which meant “to see, look, or behold.” The double “ee” spelling goes back many centuries and is shared by other common words like “been” and “green.”

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