WROTE
What does "WROTE" mean?
Past tense of 'write': formed letters or composed text at an earlier time.
Meanings
- Simple past tense of 'write'; did the act of writing. She wrote her first poem when she was seven.
Did you know?
- 'Write/wrote' changes its vowel the same way 'ride/rode' and 'drive/drove' do - all survivors of an ancient Germanic system called ablaut that English never fully gave up.
Word origin
Past tense of 'write', from Old English 'wrāt', the preterite of 'wrītan' (to score, incise, write); a strong verb whose vowel changes from i to o, like 'ride/rode' and 'drive/drove'.
Remember it
Drive/drove, ride/rode, write/wrote - same -ote ending, same old vowel swap.
A little poem
What I wrote last night
reads like a stranger's letter-
the ink kept its mind.
haiku
Wordplay
- I wrote a book on reverse psychology. Please don't read it.
What it teaches
What you wrote outlives the mood that wrote it; choose your sentences like witnesses.
Quick facts
What does WROTE mean?
Past tense of 'write': formed letters or composed text at an earlier time.
Is WROTE a valid word?
Yes — WROTE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is WROTE?
WROTE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does WROTE come from?
Past tense of 'write', from Old English 'wrāt', the preterite of 'wrītan' (to score, incise, write); a strong verb whose vowel changes from i to o, like 'ride/rode' and 'drive/drove'.
What can WROTE teach us?
What you wrote outlives the mood that wrote it; choose your sentences like witnesses.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.