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How to spell flood

What it means: To overflow or cover an area with water.

In a sentence: The rain caused the river to flood the fields. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double o. Often misspelled as flod or floodd.

Same family: floods, flooded, flooding, overflow, deluge. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Flood comes from Old English 'flōd', related to the verb 'flow'. It is connected to old Germanic words for flowing water, showing how people have described rising waters for over a thousand years.

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