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How to spell skin

hear itskin/skɪn/nounSounds

What it means: The outer covering of an animal or fruit.

In a sentence: The cat has soft skin.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as skinn or skinr.

Same family: skins, skinned, skinny, skincare, skinless. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "skin" comes from Old Norse "skinn," meaning a hide or pelt of an animal. It originally referred mainly to animal hides used for clothing and later became the common word for the outer covering of the human body as well.

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