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How to spell application

Application is spelled A-P-P-L-I-C-A-T-I-O-N. From apply: two P's, then the Y becomes I and -CATION follows.

What it means: A software program for a specific task.

In a sentence: I used an application on my tablet to play a fun game. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double p, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: applying, applied, applicator, applicable, reapplication. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Application” comes from Latin *applicatio*, from *applicare* meaning “to attach to” or “to fold toward.” This original sense of “putting something onto” something else still survives in the medical idea of a cream or lotion application to the skin.

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