Test your ear for words
Can you tell related words from chance look-alikes?
Twenty pairs of words, three minutes. The question is the same every time: do the two go back to one root?
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Do these two words share an origin?
sensortopia.com/en/related-or-not
Result
sensortopia.com/en/related-or-not
What you got wrong
Not a single miss — twenty out of twenty.
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The answer for every pair is checked against two independent sources, and both are named next to it. Borrowing counts as a shared origin too: a borrowed word is a descendant of the word it came from.