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How to spell shop

Shop is spelled S-H-O-P.

hear itshop/ʃɑp/nounSounds

What it means: A place where goods are sold.

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

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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