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How to spell hopping

What it means: To move by jumping lightly.

In a sentence: The bunny is hopping in the garden. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double p. Often misspelled as hoping or hoppingg.

Same family: hopped, hopper, hops, hop, hoppy. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Hopping” comes from the Old English verb “hoppian,” meaning to spring or leap. The -ing ending turns the base verb “hop” into a form that can act as a verb (is hopping) or a noun (a hopping game).

Patterns it uses: Double the consonant before a suffix?

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