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How to spell thick

What it means: Having a dense or heavy consistency.

In a sentence: The soup is so thick it can hold a spoon upright! ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as thik or thickk.

Same family: thicker, thickest, thicken, thickness, densely. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Thick” comes from Old English “þicce,” meaning dense or crowded together. It’s related to German “dick,” which also means thick or fat, showing how many Germanic languages share a similar word.

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