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How to spell scoop

What it means: A tool for lifting or serving food.

In a sentence: I used a scoop to get some ice cream. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double o. Often misspelled as skoop or scoope.

Same family: scoops, scooped, scooping, scooper, exclusive. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "scoop" originally meant a tool used for picking up or digging, and by the late 19th century, journalists started using it to mean an "exclusive news story" that one paper gets before the others.

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