How to spell taste

hear ittaste/teɪst/verbRules and real life

What it means: To sample or eat a small amount of food.

In a sentence: I got to taste a yummy chocolate cake at the party.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as taist or tast.

Same family: tasty, tasteless, tasting, aftertaste, flavor. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Taste comes from Old French “taster,” meaning ‘to touch, feel, or try,’ and from Latin “taxare,” meaning ‘to handle or assess.’ Over time, its meaning narrowed from general testing to the specific idea of the flavor you like or prefer.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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