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How to spell jeans

What it means: Close-fitting trousers made of denim.

In a sentence: Sam wore blue jeans to the park. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as jeens or genes.

Same family: denim, pants, trousers, shorts, jacket. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “jeans” comes from the French phrase “bleu de Gênes,” meaning “blue of Genoa,” because a similar cloth was first made in the Italian city of Genoa. The fabric we now call denim was later woven in Nîmes, France, giving it the name “de Nîmes” → “denim.”

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