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How to spell howl

hear ithowl/haʊl/verbLong vowels

What it means: To make a loud cry, like a wolf.

In a sentence: At night, the wolf began to howl at the moon.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as houl or howel.

Same family: howls, howling, howled, yell, cry. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Howl” comes from Old English “hulian,” meaning to shout or cry out loudly. It has been used in English for over a thousand years to describe the loud cries of animals, people, and even the wind.

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