How to spell winter

hear itwin·ter/'wɪntər/nounLong vowels

What it means: The coldest season of the year.

In a sentence: In winter, we build snowmen and drink hot cocoa.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as wintter or winterr.

Same family: wintering, wintered, overwinter, wintertime, wintry. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Winter comes from Old English "winter," meaning the coldest season of the year. As a verb, it has been used since at least the 1500s to mean "to spend the winter" in a particular place.

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