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How to spell rose

What it means: A sweet-smelling flower that grows on a thorny bush.

In a sentence: The rose smells sweet in the garden. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as roze or rows.

Same family: roses, rosebush, rosebud, rosy, roseship. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "rose" comes from Old English "rōse," which came from Latin "rosa." Roses have been symbols of love and beauty in many cultures for thousands of years.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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