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How to spell decision

Decision is spelled D-E-C-I-S-I-O-N. Like decide, it has a lone C after DE, and it ends -SION, as in vision.

What it means: The act of making a choice.

In a sentence: She made a decision to wear her favorite dress to the party. ▶

The part people get wrong

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Same family: decide, deciding, decided, decisive, indecision. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Decision” comes from Latin *decidere*, meaning “to cut off,” as in cutting off other choices. When you make a decision, you are literally “cutting away” the other options and choosing just one.

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