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How to spell younger

Younger is spelled Y-O-U-N-G-E-R.

What it means: Less old or of a lower age.

In a sentence: My younger brother loves to play soccer. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: youngest, youth, youthful. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Younger comes from Old English ‘geongra,’ the comparative form of ‘geong,’ meaning ‘young.’ The idea of using ‘Younger’ and ‘Elder’ or ‘Senior’ and ‘Junior’ to distinguish family members with the same name has been common in English for centuries.

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