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How to spell whole
What it means: Entire or complete.
In a sentence: He ate the whole apple for lunch.
The part people get wrong
Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as hole or whol.
Sounds like, but is not: hole. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.
Same family: wholly, wholeness, unharmed, intact, entire. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Whole” comes from Old English “hal,” meaning ‘uninjured’ or ‘sound,’ which is also the source of the modern word “heal.” This is why “whole,” “heal,” and “health” are historically related in meaning.
Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa) · Drop the e before a suffix?
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