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How to spell flag

hear itflag/flæɡ/nounSounds

What it means: A piece of fabric used for signaling.

In a sentence: The flag waved proudly in the breeze.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as falg or flagge.

Same family: flags, flagpole, flagship, flagging. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Flag comes from an old word in Scandinavian languages meaning a piece of cloth that flaps or flies in the wind. Over time, it came to mean the special cloth used to show a country, group, or signal.

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