How to spell commission

hear itcom·mis·sion/kə'mɪʃən/nounRules and real life

What it means: A formal request to create a piece of art.

In a sentence: The artist received a commission to paint a big mural on the school wall.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double m and double s, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as commision or comission.

Same family: commissioner, commissions, commissioned, commissioning, committee. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Commission” comes from the Latin word *committere*, meaning “to entrust” or “to bring together.” Historically, a commission was a group of people entrusted with an important task on behalf of a king, government, or organization.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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