How to spell build

hear itbuild/bɪld/verbSilent and tricky

What it means: To create or construct something.

In a sentence: Let's build a sandcastle on the beach.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as bild or biuld.

Same family: builder, building, rebuild, builds, built. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Build” comes from Old English “byldan,” meaning to construct a house, which is related to a word for a dwelling. Over time, its meaning expanded so we now also talk about building ideas, skills, or relationships—not just physical things.

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