How to spell childhood

hear itchild·hood/'ʧaɪldhʊd/nounRules and real life

What it means: The time of being young before becoming an adult.

In a sentence: "Playing in the park with my friends is a happy memory from my childhood."

The part people get wrong

Watch for double o. Often misspelled as childhod or childhoood.

Same family: children, childish, childlike, parenthood, adulthood. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Childhood” comes from Old English “cildhad,” where the suffix “-hood” meant a state or condition. The same “-hood” appears in words like “neighborhood,” “brotherhood,” and “adulthood,” all describing a state of being.

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