How to spell silver

hear itsil·ver/'sɪlvər/adjectiveRules and real life

What it means: Made of a shiny gray metal, or having that color.

In a sentence: The shiny silver coin sparkled in the sun.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as siver or sliver.

Same family: silverware, silver-plated, silversmith, silverware set. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Silver comes from an Old English word 'seolfor,' meaning the metal itself. Over time, English speakers also started using 'silver' to mean fancy eating utensils made from that metal, which is how it gained the meaning of 'silverware.'

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