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How to spell boarding

What it means: To get onto a ship, plane, or other vehicle.

In a sentence: The cat is boarding the big, red ship. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as bording or bordding.

Same family: board, boards, boarded, onboard, embark. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Boarding comes from the verb “to board,” which originally meant “to climb up using a plank or board,” especially when getting onto a ship. Over time, it came to mean getting on any form of transport, like trains and airplanes.

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