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How to spell leaf

hear itleaf/lif/nounSounds

What it means: The main part of a plant that makes food.

In a sentence: The green leaf fell from the tree.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as leef or leif.

Same family: leafed, leafing, leaf-through, scan, skim. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The verb "leaf" comes from the noun "leaf," because each page of a book was once called a "leaf" of paper. This idea goes back to Old English, when people compared flat sheets of writing material to leaves on a tree.

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