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How to spell boxes

What it means: Containers used for storing or transporting items.

In a sentence: The boxes are stacked high in the corner of the room. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as boxs or boxies.

Same family: box, boxing, boxed, boxer, compartment. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "box" comes from Old English "box" and Latin "buxus," referring to a boxwood tree and wooden container. The theater meaning of "boxes" developed later, describing small, box-like private seating areas built into the walls of playhouses and opera houses.

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