Stepened or Steepened: How To spell?
The word Stepened is misspelled against Steepened, which is past tense of "Steepen"
Steepened has double "ee" is mispronounced as "e"Remember double 'EE' in between the strings St & pened which should not be misspelled with single 'E'
Wrong Spelling:  St-e-pened  Correct Spelling:  St-ee-pened 
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