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How to spell sneak

What it means: To move quietly and secretly.

In a sentence: The cat likes to sneak around the garden quietly. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as sneek or sneakk.

Same family: sneaky, sneaker, sneaking, sneaked, snuck. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Sneak comes from a Middle English word related to ‘sniken,’ meaning to creep or sneak up. Over time, English speakers also started using it as a noun for a person who acts in a sly or underhand way.

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