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How to spell wheat

hear itwheat/hwit/nounSounds

What it means: A type of grain used for food.

In a sentence: The farmer grows wheat in the big, sunny field.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as wheet or whet.

Same family: wheatmeal, wholewheat, wheaten, wheatfield. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "wheat" comes from Old English "hwǣte," related to a root meaning "white," because early wheat flour was lighter in color than many other grain flours.

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