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How to spell skull

Skull is spelled S-K-U-L-L. The part people get wrong: double L.

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What it means: The bony structure of the head.

In a sentence: The pirate found a skull on the sandy beach.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double l.

Same family: skulls, skullcap, cranium, head, bone. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Skull comes from a Middle English word ‘sculle,’ probably from a Scandinavian source, and it originally just meant ‘head.’ Over time, English began to use it specifically for the bones of the head rather than the whole head itself.

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