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How to spell herd

Herd is spelled H-E-R-D.

What it means: A group of animals of the same kind.

In a sentence: The farmer watched the herd of cows graze in the field. ▶

Same family: herds, herding, herdlike, herd mentality, crowd. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Herd comes from Old English "heord," meaning a group of domestic animals kept together. Over time, English speakers began using it metaphorically for groups of people who think or act in the same way, giving us phrases like "herd mentality."

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