How to spell load

hear itload/loʊd/nounSounds

What it means: An amount of something carried or supported.

In a sentence: The truck carried a big load of apples to the market.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as lode or loade.

Same family: loads, loaded, loading, overload, workload. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Load” comes from Old English “lād,” meaning a way, course, or carrying, related to the idea of something being carried along a path. Over time it shifted from meaning a journey or way to meaning the things you carry on that journey.

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