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How to spell competition

Competition is spelled C-O-M-P-E-T-I-T-I-O-N.

hear itcom·pe·ti·tion/,kɑmpɪ'tɪʃən/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: A contest in which people try to win.

In a sentence: The school held a fun competition to see who could run the fastest.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: competing, competitive, competitor, competitiveness. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Competition” comes from the Latin word *competere*, which originally meant “to strive together.” Over time, the idea shifted from simply striving alongside others to trying to win against them.

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