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How to spell weight

Weight is spelled W-E-I-G-H-T. Put a W in front of eight and you have weight, with all of EIGHT unchanged.

hear itweight/weɪt/nounRules and real life

What it means: The heaviness of an object.

In a sentence: The elephant's weight makes the ground shake.

The part people get wrong

Watch for the order of ei.

Not to be confused with: wait, a different word.

Same family: weigh, overweight, underweight, lightweight, midweight. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Weight comes from Old English 'wiht' or 'gewiht', related to the verb 'weigh.' Both go back to a Proto-Germanic root meaning 'to lift or carry,' which is why the spelling still shows the older 'gh' even though we no longer pronounce it.

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