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Height vs. Heighth
Height
/haɪt/Examples:
He added the heights of the rooms together.Then he measured the height of the rooms inside the house.It was losing height at five thousand feet a minute now.
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Heighth
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The basketball hoop was set at a heighth of 10 feet.Mountains in the area vary greatly in heighth and ruggedness.With each jump, the drone's heighth increased slowly.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Height is the correct and standard way to refer to the dimension from base to top of something or someone.
- Heighth is a less common, non-standard variation, often considered incorrect in formal writing.
- Think of height as relating to width, dropping the final th like in the word width.
- Remember that height has only one th sound at the end, just like light.
- Height originates from Old English hiehþu, retaining the t in modern usage.
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