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How to spell house
What it means: A building for people to live in.
In a sentence: The house has a red door and a big window.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as hous or houze.
Same family: housing, housed, household, housing-project. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: The verb “to house” comes from the noun “house,” which traces back to Old English “hūs,” meaning a dwelling or shelter. Over time, English started using the noun as a verb, a common pattern where objects (like ‘shelter’ or ‘bottle’) become actions (‘to shelter,’ ‘to bottle’).
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