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How to spell to

What it means: In the direction of a place.

In a sentence: We went to the park for a picnic. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as too or two.

Sounds like, but is not: too, two. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: toward, into, onto, towards, up to. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "to" comes from Old English "tō," which also meant "in the direction of" or "toward." It is related to similar words in other Germanic languages, like German "zu" and Dutch "toe."

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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