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How to spell supplied

hear itsup·plied/sʌ'plaɪd/verbLong vowels

What it means: Provided or furnished.

In a sentence: The teacher supplied pencils to all the students in the class.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double p, and the order of ie. Often misspelled as suplied or supplyed.

Same family: supplies, supplying, supplier, resupply, provision. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Supplied comes from the verb supply, which entered English from Old French ‘soupleer’, based on a Latin word meaning ‘to fill up’ or ‘make full’. It originally had a sense of ‘completing something that is missing’—a meaning still heard when we say a store supplied what we needed.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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