How to spell square

hear itsquare/skwɜr/nounStarter

What it means: A shape with four equal sides and four right angles.

In a sentence: The cat sat on the big, red square.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as sqare or squre.

Same family: squarely, squareness, square (noun: a shape or public place), square (verb: to make fair or even), fair. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "square" comes from Old French "esquarre," a carpenter’s tool for making right angles. Because a square tool helped make things exact and true, English speakers later used "square" to describe people who are honest and fair.

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