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How to spell blade

hear itblade/bleɪd/nounSounds

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.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as blaed or blayde.

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.”

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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