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How to spell brother

Brother is spelled B-R-O-T-H-E-R.

What it means: A male with the same parents as someone else.

In a sentence: My brother and I love to play soccer in the park. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: brothers, brotherhood, brotherly, bro, sibling. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Brother” comes from Old English “brōthor,” related to similar words in Old Norse, German, and Latin that all mean a male sibling. Over time, English speakers also began using it to describe very close friends or members of the same group, such as in “brotherhood.”

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