How to spell boiling

hear itboil·ing/'bɔɪliŋ/verbSilent and tricky

What it means: To bubble and turn into vapor from heat.

In a sentence: The water in the pot is boiling and making bubbles.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as boilling or boling.

Same family: boil, boiled, boiler, boiling-hot, boil-over. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Boiling” comes from the verb “boil,” which traces back to Old French *boillir* and Latin *bullire*, meaning “to bubble.” That same Latin root also gave English the word “bubble.”

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