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How to spell closing

hear itclos·ing/'kloʊzɪŋ/verbSchwa and roots

What it means: To shut or stop operating.

In a sentence: The park is closing at sunset.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as clossing or closeing.

Same family: closed, closely, closure, enclose. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Closing” comes from the verb “close,” which traces back through Middle English to Old French “clos” and Latin “claudere,” meaning “to shut.” The same Latin root also appears in words like “include,” “exclude,” and “conclude,” all carrying the idea of shutting or bringing something to an end.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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