How to spell distribution

hear itdis·tri·bu·tion/,dɪstrə'bjuʃən/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: The sharing of things among a group of people.

In a sentence: The kind teacher gave a fair distribution of candy to all the students.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as distribuition or distribusion.

Same family: distribute, distributing, distributed, redistribution, distributional. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Distribution” comes from Latin *distributio*, from *distribuere*, meaning “to divide or deal out.” The same root also appears in “tribute” and “contribute,” all connected to the idea of giving or sharing out something.

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

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