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How to spell constitutional

hear itcon·sti·tu·tion·al/,kɑnstɪ'tuʃənəl/adjectiveAcademic

What it means: Relating to the basic laws and principles of a government.

In a sentence: The students learned about the constitutional rules in their class.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as constutional or constituational.

Same family: constitution, unconstitutional, constitutionally, reconstitute, constitutionalism. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Constitutional” comes from the Latin verb *constituere*, meaning “to set up” or “to establish.” Over time, it came to refer to things based on a country’s constitution, and earlier in English it could also mean something related to a person’s physical health or ‘constitution.’

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

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