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How to spell wrong

hear itwrong/rɔŋ/adjectiveSilent and tricky

What it means: Not correct or not the one intended.

In a sentence: The dog went the wrong way on the trail.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as rong or wrongg.

Same family: wrongful, wrongly, wrongdoing, right, injustice. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Wrong” comes from Old English “wrang,” meaning ‘crooked’ or ‘twisted,’ the opposite of ‘right’ meaning ‘straight.’ Over time, this idea of being ‘twisted’ turned into our modern sense of moral or legal wrong.

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