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How to spell swim
What it means: To move through water.
In a sentence: The duck loves to swim in the pond.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as swimn or swimmm.
Same family: swims, swimming, swimmer, swam, swum. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Swim” comes from Old English “swimman,” meaning to move in water. It is related to old Germanic words for floating or gliding, showing how people long ago noticed the smooth movement of bodies through water.
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