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How to spell combination

Combination is spelled C-O-M-B-I-N-A-T-I-O-N.

What it means: A mixture formed by joining two or more things.

In a sentence: The combination of red and yellow makes orange. ▶

The part people get wrong

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Same family: combined, combining, recombine, combinable. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Combination” comes from Latin *combinare*, meaning “to join together,” from *com-* (“together”) and *bina* (“two at a time”). Over time it came to mean any joining of parts, which is why we use it today for everything from math problems to lock codes and flavor mixes.

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