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How to spell description

Description is spelled D-E-S-C-R-I-P-T-I-O-N. It comes from describe, so it starts DE-: de-SCRIP-tion.

What it means: A written representation of something.

In a sentence: The book gave a great description of the magical land. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: describing, described, descriptional, descriptive. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Description” comes from Latin ‘descriptio’, from ‘describere’, meaning ‘to write down’ or ‘to copy off’. It’s closely related to the word ‘script’, reminding us that descriptions were originally something written rather than spoken.

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