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How to spell overlook
What it means: To view a place from a high spot.
In a sentence: From the hill, we can overlook the entire town.
The part people get wrong
Watch for double o. Often misspelled as overlok or over look.
Same family: overlooking, overlooked, look, outlook, oversee. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: Overlook comes from the Old English prefix "over-" meaning "above" or "beyond" plus "look." It originally referred to literally looking down from a height, and later developed the modern meaning of "to fail to notice" as if your eyes passed right over something.
Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?
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