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How to spell room

What it means: An enclosed space within a building.

In a sentence: There is a big teddy bear in my room. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double o. Often misspelled as rum or rom.

Same family: rooms, roomy, bedroom, classroom. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Room” comes from Old English “rūm,” which originally meant open space or spaciousness, not just an area inside a building. Over time, its meaning narrowed to the sense of an enclosed space within a house that we use today.

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