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How to spell unsafe

What it means: Causing danger or risk.

In a sentence: Climbing the tall ladder without help is unsafe. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as unsave or unssafe.

Same family: safely, safety, safer, safest. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Unsafe is formed by adding the common English prefix un- to safe, meaning 'not safe.' The word safe comes from Old French 'sauf' and Latin 'salvus,' meaning 'uninjured' or 'in good health.'

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix? · Prefixes keep every letter

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