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How to spell corrupts

Corrupts is spelled C-O-R-R-U-P-T-S.

hear itcor·rupts/kə'rʌpts/verbHidden vowels

What it means: Changes something from pure or good into something spoiled.

In a sentence: Greed sometimes corrupts characters in the fairy tales we read together.

The part people get wrong

Double r in the middle and ends with -pts.

Same family: corrupt, corrupted, corrupter, corrupting. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

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