How to spell collision

hear itcol·li·sion/kə'lɪʒən/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: A crash between two or more moving objects.

In a sentence: The two toy cars had a fun collision on the living room floor.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double l, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as colision or collission.

Same family: collided, colliding, collider, impact, crash. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Collision” comes from the Latin verb *collidere*, meaning “to strike together” (*com-* “together” + *laedere* “to strike or hurt”). The same root also gives us the modern verb “collide,” which is the action that leads to a collision.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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