How to spell graduation

hear itgrad·u·a·tion/,grædʒu'eɪʃən/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: The successful completion of a program of study.

In a sentence: We will celebrate my sister's graduation next week.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as gradution or graduasion.

Same family: graduated, graduating, undergraduate, postgraduate, graduation ceremony. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Graduation” comes from the Latin word “gradus,” meaning “step,” so a graduation is literally a ‘step’ forward. Over time, the word came to refer to moving up from one educational level to another, usually marked by a formal ceremony.

Patterns it uses: -tion, -sion or -cian?

Try spelling it

You will hear the word and a sentence. Type it and press Enter. Then four more words from the same level, so you know where you stand.

Words like this

deduction · prescription · registration · identification · destruction · compensation · authorization · verification

Spelling.School is a spaced-repetition spelling practice: ten minutes a day, every word spoken aloud, every miss explained, and every word coming back just before you would forget it. Try five words without signing up.