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How to spell generation

hear itgen·er·a·tion/,dʒɛnə'reɪʃən/nounHidden vowels

What it means: A group of people born around the same time.

In a sentence: Each generation has its own style and music.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as genaration or generasion.

How learners on Spelling.School have misspelled it: zzz

Same family: generational, generator, regeneration, degenerate, genesis. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Generation” comes from Latin *generatio*, from *generare* meaning “to beget, to produce.” It is related to the same ancient root that gives us words like “genesis” and “genetic,” all connected to birth, origin, or creation.

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

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