How to spell invention

hear itin·ven·tion/ɪn'vɛnʃən/nounPrefixes and work

What it means: A creation resulting from study and experimentation.

In a sentence: The invention made our lives much easier.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as invetion or invension.

Same family: invent, inventor, inventive, reinvent, inventional. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Invention” comes from Latin *inventio*, from *invenire* meaning “to come upon, find, or discover.” In ancient Roman rhetoric, *inventio* was actually the name for the first step in writing a speech: finding ideas to use.

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

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