How to spell yellow

hear ityel·low/'jɛloʊ/adjectiveStarter

What it means: Of the color intermediate between green and orange.

In a sentence: The bright sun is a big yellow ball in the sky.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double l. Often misspelled as yelow or yello.

Same family: yellowish, yellowed, yellowing, golden, lemon-colored. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Yellow” comes from Old English “geolu” or “geolwe,” related to Old High German “gelo,” all referring to the same bright color. The word is also used symbolically in different cultures, sometimes standing for sunshine and happiness, and sometimes for caution, as in yellow traffic lights.

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