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How to spell school

School is spelled S-C-H-O-O-L. S, C, H, as in scholar, then two O's and an L.

What it means: A place where children go to learn.

In a sentence: I go to school to learn and play with friends. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double o.

Same family: shoal, group, swarm, cluster. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: This sense of “school” comes from Middle Dutch *schole* and Middle Low German *schōle*, meaning a troop or crowd, and is unrelated in origin to the word “school” for a place of learning, which comes from Greek *scholē* meaning ‘leisure, study’.

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