How to spell analysis

hear ita·nal·y·sis/ə'nælɪsɪs/nounLong vowels

What it means: A detailed examination of something.

In a sentence: The detective did an analysis to solve the mystery.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as analisis or analyzis.

Same family: analyze, analyst, analytical, psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Analysis comes from Greek via Latin: ‘ana’ meaning ‘up’ or ‘throughout’ and ‘lysis’ meaning ‘loosening’ or ‘breaking apart’. In psychology, Freud used the idea of ‘breaking apart’ the mind’s hidden thoughts and desires, which is why his method became known as psychoanalysis.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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