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How to spell sight

hear itsight/saɪt/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: The ability to see.

In a sentence: She wore glasses to help her sight get better.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as site or sighte.

Sounds like, but is not: site, cite. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: eyesight, insight, foresight, sighted, sighting. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Sight” comes from Old English “siht” or “gesiht,” meaning the act of seeing or a thing seen. It is related to the verb “see” and is part of a very old family of vision words in Germanic languages.

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