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How to spell snack

Snack is spelled S-N-A-C-K.

What it means: A small amount of food eaten between meals.

In a sentence: I packed a yummy snack for the picnic. ▶

Same family: snacks, snacked, snacking, snack (noun), treat. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "snack" comes from a Middle Dutch word meaning "to snap" or "to bite," and it originally referred to a snap or bite of food. Over time, it came to mean both a small amount of food and the act of eating it between meals.

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