How to spell sheriff
sheriff
Not sherrif or sherif.
The trap
The word sheriff has one R and two Fs, and sherrif moves the double forward to the R. The pair belongs at the end of the word, where the F sound closes it.
Doubled letters are part of how a word is built, not decoration. The reason behind a double varies from word to word. Often it is an added ending, sometimes the word's history, so the double is learned along with the word.
What it means
noun. An elected officer in a county who is responsible for enforcing the law.
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