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How to spell coach

What it means: Someone who trains a team.

In a sentence: The coach helped the team play better. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as coch or couch.

Same family: coaches, coached, coaching, coachable, trainer. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Coach originally came from the name of a Hungarian town, Kocs, which was famous for its carriages; later, the word was used for private tutors who “carried” students through exams, and from there it gained the modern sense of a sports or skills trainer.

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