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How to spell skateboard

hear itskate·board/'skeɪt,boʊrd/nounSounds

What it means: A board with wheels used for riding.

In a sentence: She loves to ride her skateboard at the park.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as skatebord or skateboad.

Same family: skate, skater, skateboarding, longboard, skatepark. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “skateboard” comes from combining “skate” (originally from ice skates and roller skates) with “board,” because early skateboarders attached roller-skate wheels to wooden boards. The sport became popular in California in the 1950s and 1960s as a way for surfers to “surf” on land.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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