How to spell information

hear itin·for·ma·tion/,ɪnfər'meɪʃən/nounSounds

What it means: Facts or details about a subject.

In a sentence: The book is full of information about dinosaurs.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as informaton or informatiom.

Same family: inform, informative, informed, informational, misinformation. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Information” comes from Latin ‘informare,’ meaning ‘to shape’ or ‘to form in the mind.’ Over time, it came to mean the knowledge or facts that ‘shape’ what we know and understand.

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

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