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How to spell condition

Condition is spelled C-O-N-D-I-T-I-O-N. Two I's: one in the middle beat DI and one in the -TION ending.

What it means: The physical state or appearance of something.

In a sentence: The condition of the puppy's fur was soft and shiny. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: conditions, conditional, unconditional, conditioning, recondition. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Condition comes from Latin *condicio*, which originally meant ‘agreement’ or ‘term of a contract.’ Over time, scientists borrowed the word to describe the ‘terms’ or ‘settings’ of an experiment that can be changed or controlled.

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