How to spell savings

hear it/'seɪvɪŋz/nounRules and real life

What it means: A fund of money put aside as a reserve.

In a sentence: She put her savings in a piggy bank.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as saveings or savingss.

Same family: saving, saved, saver, safekeeping, budget. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “savings” comes from the verb “save,” which traces back to Old French ‘sauver’ and Latin ‘salvare,’ meaning ‘to make safe.’ Over time, the idea of keeping something safe expanded to mean protecting and storing money for the future.

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