How to spell cooperation

hear itco·op·er·a·tion/koʊ,ɑpə'reɪʃən/nounHidden vowels

What it means: Working together towards a common goal.

In a sentence: When we work together to build the tower, that's cooperation!

The part people get wrong

Watch for double o, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as co-oporation or cooparation.

Same family: cooperate, cooperative, operation, operator, collaboration. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Cooperation” comes from the Latin roots co- meaning “together” and operari meaning “to work.” It literally means “working together,” which is exactly what the word still means today.

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

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