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How to spell shop

What it means: A place where goods are sold.

In a sentence: We went to the shop to buy some candy. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as shof or schop.

Same family: workshop, woodshop, machine shop, repair shop, shopfloor. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Shop” comes from Old English “sceoppa,” meaning a booth or stall. Over time it grew to mean a place where work is done, especially by hand, as in a wood shop or machine shop.

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You will hear the word and a sentence. Type it and press Enter. Then four more words from the same level, so you know where you stand.

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