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How to spell town

What it means: An urban area smaller than a city.

In a sentence: The town has a big playground with a slide. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as tawn or toan.

Same family: towns, downtown, uptown, small town, township. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "town" comes from Old English "tūn," which originally meant a fenced place or enclosure, like a farm or village. Over time its meaning shifted to describe a settled community larger than a village but smaller than a city.

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