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How to spell collision

Collision is spelled C-O-L-L-I-S-I-O-N. The part people get wrong: double L.

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.

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.

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