How to spell value

hear itval·ue/'vælju/nounLong vowels

What it means: The importance or worth of something.

In a sentence: The value of kindness is very important.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as valeu or valeu.

Same family: valuable, valuation, evaluate, revalue, overvalue. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Value comes from Old French "value" and Latin "valere," meaning "to be strong" or "to be worth." The same Latin root also gave us words like "valid" and "valuable," all connected to strength and worth.

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