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How to spell toe

What it means: One of the five separate parts at the end of a foot.

In a sentence: I stubbed my big toe on the toy. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as tow or to.

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

Same family: toes, toeing, toed, toe-in, toe-out. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The verb “toe” comes from the noun “toe,” originally from Old English “tā,” meaning the digit of the foot. Mechanics later extended the word to describe the angled position of wheels, and from there it developed the specialized sense of driving something at a slight angle.

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