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How to spell upstairs

What it means: On a floor above.

In a sentence: Let's go play with the toys upstairs. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as upstaires or upstares.

Same family: stairs, downstairs, staircase, stairway. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Upstairs” is a compound word formed from “up” and “stairs,” and it first appeared in English in the 17th century to describe movement to an upper floor. The word “stair” itself comes from Old English “stǣger,” meaning a step or set of steps.

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