How to spell stick

hear itstick/stɪk/nounRules and real life

What it means: A thin piece of wood or similar material.

In a sentence: I used a stick to draw in the sand.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as stik or stickk.

Same family: sticks, sticking, sticky, stick-up, joint. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Stick comes from Old English “sticca,” meaning a small rod or twig. Its slang use for a marijuana cigarette grew from the idea of a thin, stick-like roll of leaves.

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