How to spell stopped

hear itstopped/stɑpt/verbRules and real life

What it means: To come to a halt.

In a sentence: The bus stopped at the red light.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double p. Often misspelled as stoped or stopt.

Same family: stop, stopping, stops, stoppable, unstoppable. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Stopped comes from the verb stop, which goes back to Old English ‘stoppian,’ meaning to plug or block an opening. That older meaning is still clear when we talk about a ‘stopped nose’ being blocked so air can’t pass easily.

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