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How to spell blade

Blade is spelled B-L-A-D-E.

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What it means: The flat, sharp cutting part of a weapon.

In a sentence: The brave knight used his shiny blade to cut the rope.

Same family: blades, grass-blade, leaf-blade, blade-like, bladed. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Blade comes from Old English “blæd,” which could mean both a leaf and something that blossoms or blooms. Over time, the word also came to refer to flat, sharp edges like those on knives, but it still keeps its older meaning in phrases like “a blade of grass.”

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