How to spell close

hear itclose/kloتٹz/verbSounds

What it means: To shut an opening or cover an entrance.

In a sentence: Please close the door gently so the cat doesn't get out.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as cloes or cloze.

Same family: closes, closed, closing, closure, reclose. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Close” comes from Old French *clos* and Latin *clausus*, meaning “shut.” The same Latin root also gave us “exclude,” “conclude,” and “clause.”

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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