How to spell went

Went is spelled W-E-N-T.

hear it/wɛnt/verbSounds

What it means: To have moved from one place to another.

In a sentence: We went to the park for a picnic.

Same family: go, going, gone, goes, traveler. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Went” is actually the old past tense of the verb “wend,” which originally meant ‘to turn’ or ‘to go.’ Over time, English speakers stopped using “wend” often, but kept its past tense form as the irregular past tense of “go.”

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