How to spell citizenship

hear itcit·i·zen·ship/'sɪtɪzən,ʃɪp/nounPrefixes and work

What it means: The behavior of a responsible and helpful member of a community.

In a sentence: In school, we learn about good citizenship and being helpful to others.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as citizanship or citizenshipp.

Same family: citizen, citizens, citizenry, civic, civil. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Citizenship comes from the word citizen, which traces back to the Latin word *civis*, meaning ‘townsman’ or ‘one who lives in a city.’ The suffix -ship was added in English to show the state or quality of being a citizen.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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