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How to spell cloudy

What it means: Covered with dark or white shapes in the sky that hide the sun.

In a sentence: The sky is cloudy, but let's still go outside to play! ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as claudy or cloudie.

Same family: cloud, clouds, cloudier, cloudiest, cloudiness. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Cloudy comes from the noun 'cloud' plus the adjective-forming ending '-y'. 'Cloud' itself comes from Old English 'clud', which originally meant a mass of rock or hill before it was used for puffy masses in the sky.

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