How to spell destination

hear itdes·ti·na·tion/,dɛstə'neɪʃən/nounPrefixes and work

What it means: The place designated as the end of a journey.

In a sentence: Our destination is the beach for a fun day in the sun.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as destanation or destinition.

Same family: destine, predestination, destined, final-destination. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Destination comes from Latin 'destinatio', from 'destinare', meaning 'to make firm, establish, or determine'. Over time, the word shifted from the idea of something being determined or fixed to the modern sense of the place you are headed to.

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

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