How to spell tone

Tone is spelled T-O-N-E.

hear ittone/toʊn/nounSounds

What it means: The quality or character of a sound.

In a sentence: The tone of the bell was clear and loud.

Same family: tones, tonal, undertone, overtone, monotone. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Tone comes from the Greek word “tonos,” meaning a stretching or pitch, which first referred to musical sound before later being used for slight differences in color. Artists borrowed the musical idea of ‘tone’ to talk about how light or dark a color feels on a painting.

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