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How to spell block

Block is spelled B-L-O-C-K.

hear itblock/blɑk/nounSounds

What it means: A solid piece of material, often cubical.

In a sentence: Can you stack the block on top of the tower?

Same family: blocked, blocking, unblock, blockage, blocker. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Block” comes from Middle Dutch and Middle High German words meaning a log or trunk of a tree. Over time, its meaning expanded from a solid piece of wood to anything that stops or obstructs movement, like a block in a pipe.

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