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How to spell wide

hear itwide/waɪd/adjectiveSounds

What it means: Having a large distance from one side to the other.

In a sentence: The river is very wide and full of fish.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as wid or wied.

Same family: widely, width, widen, wider, widest. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Wide” comes from Old English “wīd,” meaning broad or extensive, and is related to similar words in German and Dutch. The phrase “wide of the mark” dates back to archery, where a shot that missed the target was described this way.

Patterns it uses: i before e? · Drop the e before a suffix?

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