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How to spell railroad

What it means: A track for trains to travel on.

In a sentence: The train zoomed down the long railroad track. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as rail road or railrode.

Same family: rail, railway, railroaded, railroading, train. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “railroad” is a compound of “rail” and “road,” first used in the early 19th century when wooden or metal rails were laid down to guide wagons. In British English, the same idea is usually called a “railway” instead of a railroad.

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