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How to spell wheel

What it means: A circular object that rotates.

In a sentence: The car has a big, shiny wheel. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double e. Often misspelled as wheal or weel.

Same family: wheeled, wheeling, wheelbarrow, wheelchair, wheelie. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Wheel comes from Old English 'hwēol,' related to the idea of turning or rolling. Interestingly, the verb 'to wheel' originally described the circling motion of birds in the sky before it was commonly used for moving things on actual wheels.

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