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How to spell creek

What it means: A small stream of water.

In a sentence: The little duck swam in the babbling creek. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double e. Often misspelled as creak or criek.

Same family: stream, brook, river, waterway. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Creek comes from Old Norse and Old English words meaning a bend or inlet. In some parts of the United States, people also use “creek” to mean a small bay or narrow inlet from the sea.

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