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How to spell step
What it means: A flat surface for placing the foot when moving up or down.
In a sentence: Be careful with each step on the stairs.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as stepp or stept.
Same family: stepping, stepped, step on, tread on, mistreat. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: The verb "step" comes from Old English "steppan," meaning to move the foot or walk. The figurative sense of "step on" someone, meaning to treat them badly or push them down socially, developed later from the idea of physically stepping on something to crush it.
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