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How to spell scooter

Scooter is spelled S-C-O-O-T-E-R. The part people get wrong: double O.

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What it means: A small wheeled vehicle for riding.

In a sentence: The boy rode his scooter to the park.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double o.

Same family: scoot, scooting, scooted, sled, sledge. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Scooter comes from the verb “scoot,” meaning to move quickly. The word originally described light vehicles that let people glide or ‘scoot’ along surfaces like pavement or ice.

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