How to spell convenience

hear itcon·ven·i·ence/kən'vinjəns/nounPrefixes and work

What it means: Something that makes life easier or more comfortable.

In a sentence: Having a backpack with wheels is a great convenience when carrying heavy books.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear, and the order of ie. Often misspelled as convience or convinience.

Same family: convenient, inconvenient, inconvenience, conveniently, convention. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Convenience” comes from Latin “convenire,” meaning “to come together” or “to be suitable.” The idea of a public toilet as a “convenience” comes from it being a useful, suitable service provided in public spaces.

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

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