How to spell highway

hear ithigh·way/'haɪ,weɪ/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: A major road for motor transport.

In a sentence: The red car zoomed down the highway.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as hiway or high-way.

Same family: highways, freeway, expressway, road, route. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Highway comes from Old English words meaning a main public road, often raised or specially maintained. It didn’t originally mean a fast car road, but any main route used by many travelers.

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