How to spell island

hear itis·land/'aɪlənd/nounLong vowels

What it means: A land mass surrounded by water.

In a sentence: The island is full of colorful birds and tall palm trees.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as iland or islend.

Same family: islands, islander, islanders, island-hopping, island-wide. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Island comes from Old English ‘īegland’ (water-land). The silent 's' was added later because people mistakenly connected it to the unrelated word ‘isle’ from French.

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