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How to spell scare

hear itscare/skɜr/verbSounds

What it means: To cause fear in someone.

In a sentence: The ghost tried to scare the kids on Halloween.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as scar or skare.

Same family: scares, scared, scaring, scary, frighten. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Scare comes from an Old Norse word, ‘skirra,’ meaning ‘to frighten or shy away.’ It’s related to the word ‘scarce,’ which originally had the sense of something that makes you ‘shrink back’ or feel uneasy.

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