How to spell cherry

hear itcher·ry/'ʧɛri/nounSounds

What it means: A small red fruit with a hard stone inside.

In a sentence: The cherry is small and bright red.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double r. Often misspelled as chery or cherri.

Same family: cherries, cherry-red, bright-red, scarlet, crimson. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "cherry" comes from Old Northern French "cherise," which originally referred to the fruit itself. Over time, English speakers also began using it to describe the deep, bright red color of ripe cherries.

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