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How to spell speed

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What it means: The ability to move very quickly.

In a sentence: The cheetah used its speed to race across the savannah.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double e. Often misspelled as spead or speeed.

Same family: speeds, speedy, speeding, speedy, speedometer. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Speed comes from Old English "spēd," which originally meant "success" or "prosperity" before shifting to the idea of quickness and rapid motion in modern English.

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