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How to spell cooperation

Cooperation is spelled C-O-O-P-E-R-A-T-I-O-N.

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.

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.

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