How to spell immigration

hear itim·mi·gra·tion/,ɪmə'greɪʃən/nounPrefixes and work

What it means: Migration into a place to settle.

In a sentence: Many people go through immigration when they move to a new country.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double m. Often misspelled as imigration or immagration.

Same family: immigrant, immigrate, migration, emigration, migratory. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Immigration” comes from the Latin word *immigrare*, meaning “to move into, to settle in” (in + migrare, “to move or wander”). English developed a neat pair from the same root: *immigration* for moving into a country and *emigration* for moving out of one.

Patterns it uses: -tion, -sion or -cian? · Prefixes keep every letter

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