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How to spell population

What it means: The number of inhabitants in a given area.

In a sentence: The population of ants in the garden is very large. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as poplulation or popuation.

How learners on Spelling.School have misspelled it: zzz

Same family: populated, overpopulation, depopulation, people. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Population” comes from the Latin word “populus,” meaning “people.” It entered English through French in the late Middle Ages and originally referred broadly to the people living in a place, long before it became a key term in modern statistics and demography.

Patterns it uses: -tion, -sion or -cian?

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