How to spell hoped

hear ithoped/hoʊpt/verbRules and real life

What it means: To want something good to happen.

In a sentence: She hoped for sunny weather on her birthday.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as hopeded or hooped.

Same family: hopes, hoping, hopeful, hopefully, hopeless. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Hoped comes from the verb hope, which has roots in Old English 'hopa', meaning confidence or expectation of something good. Over time, the meaning shifted to our modern sense of wishing or wanting something good to happen.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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