How to spell invasion

hear itin·va·sion/ɪn'veɪʒən/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: An act of entering a place forcefully.

In a sentence: The ants planned an invasion to get the picnic food.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as invasian or invation.

Same family: invaded, invading, invader, invasive, invasionary. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Invasion” comes from Latin *invadere*, meaning “to go into” or “to attack,” from *in-* (“into”) and *vadere* (“to go”). The same root appears in words like “evade” (to get away) and “pervade” (to spread through).

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa) · Prefixes keep every letter

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