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How to spell garage

What it means: A building for storing vehicles.

In a sentence: Dad parks the car in the garage. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as garadge or garrege.

Same family: garages, garaged, garaging, mechanic, repair-shop. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "garage" comes from French, from the verb "garer," meaning "to shelter" or "to park." It originally referred to a place where cars were stored, and later also came to mean a place where they are repaired.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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