How to spell pick

Pick is spelled P-I-C-K.

hear itpick/pɪk/verbSilent and tricky

What it means: To pluck or gather a flower or fruit.

In a sentence: Please pick a flower for me.

Same family: picking, picker, picked, harvest, crop. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: English speakers have used “pick” as a verb since Old English, meaning to pull or pluck something. Its noun use for the amount of fruit or crops gathered developed later from this idea of picking things off a plant.

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