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How to spell yolk

What it means: The yellow part of an egg.

In a sentence: The egg yolk is bright yellow. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for a silent l. Often misspelled as yoke or yolke.

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

Same family: egg, albumen, embryo, nutrient, shell. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Yolk comes from Old English "geolca," related to "geolu," meaning yellow, which also gave us the word "yellow" itself. The silent "l" in "yolk" is a later spelling influence and is not pronounced in standard modern English.

Patterns it uses: Silent letters

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