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How to spell documentation

Documentation is spelled D-O-C-U-M-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N.

hear itdoc·u·men·ta·tion/,dɑkjəmɛn'teɪʃən/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: Evidence or information supporting a fact.

In a sentence: The teacher showed us the documentation for the school rules.

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Same family: document, documented, documentary, evidence. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Documentation” comes from the Latin word *documentum*, meaning “lesson” or “example,” from *docere*, “to teach.” Over time it shifted from the idea of teaching proof to the modern sense of written evidence that supports a fact or statement.

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