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How to spell plied

hear itplied/plaɪd/verbLong vowels

What it means: Worked or used steadily and forcefully.

In a sentence: The sailor plied his oars to reach the shore.

The part people get wrong

Watch for the order of ie. Often misspelled as plide or plyed.

Same family: plies, plying, supplier, supply, applied. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Ply” comes from a Latin root meaning “to fold,” which later developed the sense of repeatedly using or working at something. That’s why we also use “ply” for layers of material, like two-ply or three-ply paper.

Patterns it uses: i before e?

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