How to spell passion

hear itpas·sion/'pæʃən/nounRules and real life

What it means: A strong feeling or emotion about something.

In a sentence: She has a passion for painting colorful pictures.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double s, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as pashion or pasion.

Same family: passionate, passionately, compassion, compassionate, impassioned. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Passion” comes from the Latin word “passio,” meaning “suffering” or “enduring,” which is why the phrase “The Passion of Christ” refers to Jesus’s suffering. Over time, the meaning broadened to describe any very strong feeling or deep enthusiasm.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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