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How to spell leaves

hear it/livz/nounLong vowels

What it means: Green parts of a plant.

In a sentence: The leaves on the tree are turning red and yellow.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as leafs or leevs.

Same family: leafy, leafless, leaves (verb: leaves the room), foliage, petal. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Leaves” is the irregular plural of “leaf,” following an old English pattern where many words ending in -f changed to -ves in the plural, like wolf → wolves. The word “leaf” goes back to Old English “lēaf,” which could mean a plant leaf or even a page of a book—why we still call pages “leaves” in a manuscript.

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