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How to spell inspection

Inspection is spelled I-N-S-P-E-C-T-I-O-N.

What it means: A formal examination or assessment.

In a sentence: The teacher did an inspection of our tidy classroom. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: inspect, inspector, inspected, inspecting, inspectional. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Inspection” comes from Latin *inspectio*, from *inspicere* meaning “to look into or examine.” It literally carries the idea of “looking inside” something carefully, which is still how we use the word today.

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