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How to spell location

Location is spelled L-O-C-A-T-I-O-N.

What it means: The place where something is.

In a sentence: We found the secret treasure's location on the map. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: locate, relocate, relocation, local, locality. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Location” comes from the Latin word *locare*, meaning “to place,” which is related to *locus*, meaning “place.” This same root also appears in words like “local” and “locomotive” (originally meaning something that moves from place to place).

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