How to spell division

hear itdi·vi·sion/dɪ'vɪʒən/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: The process of splitting numbers or things into equal parts.

In a sentence: The teacher showed us a fun division trick with apples.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as devsion or divison.

Same family: divided, dividing, subdivision, individual. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Division” comes from Latin *divisio*, from *dividere* meaning “to separate” or “to divide.” Over time, the word developed many meanings, including this specialized naval sense for a group of ships of similar type.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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