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How to spell loud

What it means: Having a high volume or intensity.

In a sentence: The music was too loud at the party. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as louds or lowd.

Same family: loudly, louder, loudest, loudness, noisy. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Loud” comes from Old English “hlūd,” meaning noisy or making much noise, and is related to similar words in German and Dutch. The original Old English spelling began with an ‘h’ (hlūd), which was later dropped as English spelling changed.

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