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How to spell sworn

hear itsworn/swoʊrn/verbSilent and tricky

What it means: To have made a serious promise.

In a sentence: The knight had sworn to protect the kingdom.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as swarn or sorn.

Same family: swear, swore, swearing, oath, pledge. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Sworn” is the past participle of “swear,” which comes from Old English *swerian*, meaning ‘to take an oath.’ The idea of being a “sworn enemy” or “sworn friend” goes back centuries, showing how powerful formal promises and oaths have always been in English-speaking cultures.

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