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How to spell side

hear itside/saɪd/nounSounds

What it means: The left or right part of the body or an object.

In a sentence: Let's walk side by side to the park.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as seid or sid.

Same family: sides, beside, besides, sideways, sidekick. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "side" comes from Old English "sīde," which first meant the long part of something like a body or object. Over time it also came to mean a position or opinion in a conflict, like taking one side in an argument.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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