How to spell confirmation

hear itcon·fir·ma·tion/,kɑnfər'meɪʃən/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: Proof that something believed is correct.

In a sentence: We are waiting for a confirmation that the party is still happening.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as conformation or confarmation.

Same family: confirmed, confirming, reconfirmation, affirmation. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Confirmation” comes from Latin *confirmatio*, from *confirmare* meaning “to make firm or strengthen.” The word still carries this idea today: a confirmation makes an agreement, belief, or booking ‘strong’ and officially secure.

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

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