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How to spell clothes

What it means: Garments worn on the body.

In a sentence: She folded her clothes and put them in the dresser. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as cloths or clouthes.

Same family: clothing, clothed, unclothed, wardrobe. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Clothes” comes from the Old English word “clāþ” meaning ‘cloth’ or ‘garment.’ Over time, English speakers added the plural ending and it became a special plural-only noun, so we say “clothes” for garments but not “a clothe.”

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