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How to spell sent

hear itsent/sɛnt/verbSounds

What it means: Caused to go or be conveyed.

In a sentence: I sent a letter to my friend.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as cent or scent.

Sounds like, but is not: cent, scent. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: kroon, currency, coin, money, Estonia. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The Estonian sent comes from the word for 'cent' and functioned much like a cent in other currencies: 100 sent made one kroon. Estonia used the kroon and sent from the early 1990s until it adopted the euro in 2011.

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