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How to spell flow

hear itflow/floʊ/verbLong vowels

What it means: To move continuously in a certain direction.

In a sentence: The river will flow gently down the hill.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as flo or floe.

Same family: flowing, outflow, inflow, overflow, flowchart. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Flow comes from Old English *flōwan*, meaning ‘to stream or pour,’ related to words for rivers and water in other Germanic languages. Over time, English speakers began to use it not only for water but also for things like traffic, money, and even ideas.

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