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How to spell wake

What it means: To stop sleeping.

In a sentence: I wake up early in the morning to see the sunrise. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as waek or wacke.

Same family: awake, waking, woke, awaken, aftereffect. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Wake comes from Old English 'wacu,' meaning a watch or vigil, especially held after a death. The modern phrase 'in the wake of' likely compares the consequences that follow an event to the disturbed water that follows behind a moving boat.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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