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How to spell foxes
What it means: Wild animals with pointed ears and bushy tails.
In a sentence: The foxes played happily in the forest.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as foxs or foxies.
Same family: fox, foxy, foxes', vixen, cub. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: Foxes is the plural of fox, a word that comes from Old English "fox" and related Germanic words. For centuries, foxes have appeared in European folktales as clever and sometimes tricky animals.
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