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How to spell weak

What it means: Lacking strength or power.

In a sentence: The kitten was too weak to climb the tree. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as week or wek.

Sounds like, but is not: week. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: weakness, weaken, weakest, weakly. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Weak” comes from Old Norse “veikr,” meaning ‘sickly’ or ‘without strength.’ Over time, English kept the idea of lacking strength but now also uses it for things like weak arguments, weak light, or weak sounds.

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