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How to spell tries

What it means: To make an effort or attempt something.

In a sentence: She tries to ride her bike without training wheels. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for the order of ie. Often misspelled as trys or tryes.

Same family: tried, trying, retries, attempt, test. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: This sense of "tries" comes from an older meaning of "try" that originally meant to test, examine, or separate the good from the bad. In cooking, to "try" fat is to heat it so the pure, usable part is separated from the waste, keeping that older idea of testing and refining.

Patterns it uses: i before e?

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