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How to spell yield

Yield is spelled Y-I-E-L-D.

What it means: To produce a crop, food, or other result.

In a sentence: The farmer waited for the crops to yield fruit. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for the order of ie.

Same family: yields, high-yield, yielding, yielded, return. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Yield comes from Old English *gieldan*, meaning “to pay” or “to give up,” which is why today it can mean both the profit you get from something and the act of giving way or surrendering in traffic or arguments.

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