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How to spell view

hear itview/vju/nounLong vowels

What it means: What can be seen from a particular place.

In a sentence: We climbed the hill to get a nice view of the sunset.

The part people get wrong

Watch for the order of ie. Often misspelled as veiw or vuew.

Same family: views, viewed, viewing, viewer, review. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “View” came into English from Old French “veue,” meaning “a sight,” which is related to the Latin word “vidēre,” meaning “to see.” It shares the same ancient root as words like “video” and “vision,” all connected to seeing.

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