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Height vs. Heighth

Height

/haɪt/
A measurement of how tall or high something or someone is from bottom to top

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

A common variant or misspelling of the word 'height', referring to how tall someone or something is.

Examples:

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:

etymology
  • Height is the correct spelling for the vertical measurement of something.
  • Some people mistakenly add a th to form heighth, thinking its similar to words like width or depth'.
  • Remember that height follows the similar pattern as weight, without an extra th at the end.
  • Height ends with t, not th, unlike other measurement words.
  • If unsure, recall that height rhymes with light, both ending in t.
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