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How to spell food
What it means: Any solid substance used as nourishment.
In a sentence: The cat likes to eat yummy food.
The part people get wrong
Watch for double o. Often misspelled as foood or fod.
Same family: foods, foodie, seafood, pet food, baby food. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Food” comes from Old English “fōda,” meaning nourishment or fuel. It’s related to the verb “to feed,” and both go back to an ancient Germanic root about giving or taking nourishment.
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