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How to spell dress

Dress is spelled D-R-E-S-S. The part people get wrong: double S.

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What it means: A one-piece garment for women.

In a sentence: She wore a pretty dress to the party.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double s.

Same family: dresses, dressed, dressing, redress, overdress. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The verb "dress" comes from Old French "dresser," meaning "to arrange" or "to set straight." That older meaning still survives in gardening, where to dress plants or land means to arrange and trim them carefully.

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