How to spell construction

hear itcon·struc·tion/kən'strəkʃən/nounRules and real life

What it means: The act of building something.

In a sentence: The construction workers build tall buildings.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as constrution or constructoin.

Same family: construct, reconstruction, constructional, constructor, structure. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Construction” comes from the Latin word *constructio*, based on *struere*, meaning “to pile up” or “to build.” The same root also appears in words like “structure,” “instruct,” and “destruction,” all connected to the idea of building or putting things together.

Patterns it uses: -tion, -sion or -cian?

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