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How to spell check

hear itcheck/tʃɛk/verbSounds

What it means: To verify or examine something.

In a sentence: Let's check the weather before we go outside.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as chek or chec.

Also spelled: cheque (accepted as correct).

Same family: checks, checked, checking, recheck, double-check. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Check” comes from the game of chess, from Old French “eschec,” meaning “exposed king.” From the idea of stopping the king, it developed the general sense of a stop, control, or examination.

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