How to spell erosion

hear ite·ro·sion/ɪ'roʊʒən/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: The process of wearing something down.

In a sentence: The rain caused erosion on the sandy beach.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as errosion or erosian.

Same family: eroding, eroded, erosive, erosional, erosion-control. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Erosion” comes from Latin *erosionem*, meaning “a gnawing away,” from *rodere*, “to gnaw.” Geologists still use the word today to describe how water, wind, and ice slowly “gnaw away” at rock and soil over time.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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