How to spell permission

hear itper·mis·sion/pər'mɪʃən/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: Approval to do something.

In a sentence: I need permission to go to the park with my friends.

The part people get wrong

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

Same family: permitted, permitting, permissible, permissionless, authorization. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Permission” comes from the Latin verb *permittere*, meaning “to let go through” or “to allow to pass.” Over time, it came to mean the formal act of allowing someone to do something, especially in legal or official contexts.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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