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How to spell shoes

What it means: Footwear that covers the foot.

In a sentence: I tied the laces on my new shoes. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as shoos or shues.

Same family: shoe, shoelace, shoemaker, shoeing, footwear. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “shoe” comes from Old English “scoh,” meaning a covering for the foot. Over centuries, the form changed slightly, but the meaning has stayed almost exactly the same.

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