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How to spell stand

What it means: To be in an upright position.

In a sentence: I stand tall like a tree. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as stant or stend.

Same family: standing, withstand, understand, standable, standpoint. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Stand” comes from Old English “standan,” meaning “to be upright,” and over time it developed the figurative sense of “endure” or “tolerate,” as in “I can’t stand it.” This metaphor of ‘standing up under’ something unpleasant is found in several Germanic languages.

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