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How to spell sail
What it means: To move with wind power.
In a sentence: The boat will sail across the blue sea.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as sale or sael.
Sounds like, but is not: sale. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.
Same family: sailing, sailed, sailer, glide, float. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: Sail comes from Old English "seglian," related to the noun for a ship's sail. Over time, English speakers also began to use it figuratively for anything that moves smoothly and gracefully, like birds or clouds that seem to "sail" through the air.
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