How to spell reload

hear itre·load/ri'loʊd/verbPrefixes and work

What it means: To load something again.

In a sentence: Let's reload the game so we can play again!

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as reloade or re-load.

Same family: loaded, loading, unload, overload, download. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Reload is formed from the prefix "re-" meaning "again" and the verb "load," which originally came from Old English and Germanic words for a burden or cargo. The modern sense of "reload" is often used in technology and gaming, but it grew out of the older idea of loading and reloading carts, ships, and later, weapons.

Patterns it uses: Prefixes keep every letter

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