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How to spell shade

hear itshade/ʃeɪd/nounSounds

What it means: An area sheltered from sunlight.

In a sentence: The tree gives cool shade on a sunny day.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as shaid or shadde.

Same family: shades, shaded, shading, tone, tint. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Shade” comes from Old English “sceadu,” which meant both ‘shadow’ and ‘dark place of shelter.’ Over time, its meaning expanded to include subtle differences in color, like different shades of blue or red.

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