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How to spell shelter

hear itshel·ter/'ʃɛltər/nounSounds

What it means: A place that provides protection from bad weather or danger.

In a sentence: The little cat found shelter under the big green tree.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as sheltrer or schelter.

Same family: shelters, sheltered, sheltering, shelterless, refuge. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Shelter comes from a 16th‑century English word meaning 'shield or protection,' probably related to the word shell. Over time, its meaning expanded from simple physical protection to many types of safe places, like homes, refuges, and emergency centers.

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