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How to spell write

hear itwrite/raɪt/verbStarter

What it means: To form letters or words on paper with a pen.

In a sentence: I like to write stories about dragons.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as rite or writ.

Sounds like, but is not: right, rite. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: writing, wrote, written, rewrite, writer. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Write comes from Old English "writan," which originally meant "to score or carve runes" on a surface. Over time, the meaning shifted from carving marks to putting words on paper and now to typing on screens.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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