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How to spell evaluation

Evaluation is spelled E-V-A-L-U-A-T-I-O-N.

What it means: The act of determining the value of something.

In a sentence: The teacher will have an evaluation to see how well we are learning. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: evaluate, evaluating, re-evaluate, valuable. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Evaluation” comes from French ‘évaluation,’ based on the word ‘value’ plus the Latin-derived suffix ‘-ation.’ It literally developed with the sense of ‘turning something into a value,’ which fits its modern meaning of judging worth or quality.

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