How to spell enclosed

hear iten·closed/ɛn'kloʊzd/adjectivePrefixes and work

What it means: Surrounded on all sides.

In a sentence: The kitten was safely enclosed in a cozy little basket.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as inclosed or encloseded.

Same family: enclose, enclosing, enclosure, closed, closure. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Enclosed comes from the verb enclose, built from the prefix "en-" (meaning "in" or "into") and the word "close" (to shut). It originally described surrounding land with a fence during the historical "enclosure" of fields in England.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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