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How to spell sunlight

What it means: The natural brightness that shines during the day.

In a sentence: The flowers danced in the warm sunlight. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as sunlite or sunlite.

Same family: sun, sunny, sunrise, sunset, sunshine. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Sunlight is a simple compound of the Old English word “sunne” (sun) and “lēoht” (light). English started joining these two ideas into one word over 400 years ago to describe the natural light that comes directly from the sun.

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