How to spell address

hear itad·dress/'ة™drة›s/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: The location where someone lives or works.

In a sentence: I wrote my friend's address on the envelope.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double d and double s. Often misspelled as adress or addres.

Same family: addressed, addressing, readdress, mail, label. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: English "address" comes from Old French "adrecier," meaning "to straighten or direct." Over time, it developed the specific sense of writing directions on a letter so it can be sent to the right person and place.

Patterns it uses: Double the consonant before a suffix?

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