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How to spell wood

hear itwood/wʊd/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: An area of land covered with growing trees.

In a sentence: The bird built a nest in the wood.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double o. Often misspelled as Woodd or Wod.

Sounds like, but is not: would. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: Grant Wood, American Gothic, painter, Midwest, regionalism. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: This use of "Wood" is a surname, which originally referred to someone who lived near or worked in a forest. As with many English surnames, a common noun for a place or job became a family name over time.

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