How to spell communication

hear itcom·mu·ni·ca·tion/kə,mjunə'keɪʃən/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: The sharing of information, ideas, or feelings between people.

In a sentence: Good communication helps friends understand each other.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double m, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as comunication or commmunication.

Same family: communicate, communicative, communicator, communication skills, miscommunication. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Communication” comes from the Latin word “communicare,” which means “to share” or “to make common.” So at its root, communication is about making ideas shared between people.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa) · -tion, -sion or -cian?

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