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How to spell information

Information is spelled I-N-F-O-R-M-A-T-I-O-N. Build it from inform plus ation: in-for-ma-tion, ending -TION.

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.

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.

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