How to spell list

hear itlist/lɪst/nounSounds

What it means: An ordered collection of items.

In a sentence: Let's make a list of our favorite animals.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as listt or lits.

Same family: listing, listed, listable, listings, list (noun). If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The verb "list" comes from Old English "liste," meaning a border or strip, and later came to mean a series of names written down. Over time, the idea of arranging names in order gave us the modern sense of "to list" things one by one.

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