How to spell connection

hear itcon·nec·tion/kə'nɛkʃən/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: A link that joins two places or things together.

In a sentence: The bridge made a strong connection between the two islands.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double n, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as conection or connextion.

Same family: connected, connecting, connections, disconnect. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Connection” comes from the Latin verb *connectere*, meaning ‘to bind together.’ For a long time, the spelling “connexion” was common in British English, and you can still see it in some older books.

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

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