How to spell identification

hear iti·den·ti·fi·ca·tion/aɪ,dɛntəfə'keɪʃən/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: Proof of who someone is.

In a sentence: I showed my identification to the librarian so I could get a library card.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as identificationn or idintification.

Same family: identify, identifying, identified, identifiable, identity. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Identification” comes from Medieval Latin 'identificare', meaning 'to make the same as', combined with the noun-forming ending '-tion'. It’s closely related to 'identity', and both trace back to the Latin word 'idem', meaning 'the same'.

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

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