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How to spell gloves

hear it/gləv/nounSounds

What it means: Hand coverings for warmth or protection.

In a sentence: She wears pink gloves to keep her hands warm in winter.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as glovs or gloveses.

Same family: glove, gloved, gloving, baseball-glove, mitt. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Glove comes from Old English "glōf," meaning a palm covering; over time, special kinds of gloves were developed for sports like baseball, where the design helps players catch fast‑moving balls more safely.

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