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How to spell floor

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What it means: The inside lower horizontal surface of a room.

In a sentence: The cat likes to sleep on the floor.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double o. Often misspelled as flor or floar.

Same family: floors, flooring, floorboard, ground, surface. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Floor comes from Old English "flōr," which originally meant the ground or the bottom of the sea. Over time, its meaning narrowed to the man‑made surface you walk on inside buildings.

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