How to spell we'd

hear it/wid/pronounSilent and tricky

What it means: A contraction of 'we would'.

In a sentence: We'd like to build a sandcastle at the beach.

Same family: we, we're, we've, we'll, us. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “We'd” is a contraction formed by shortening “we had” or “we would” and replacing missing letters with an apostrophe. English contractions like this became common in speech long before they were widely accepted in formal writing.

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