How to spell portion

hear itpor·tion/'poʊrʃən/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: A part of something, often referring to food.

In a sentence: Can I have a portion of cake, please?

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as porsion or portian.

Same family: proportion, apportion, portioned, portioning, serving. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Portion” comes from Latin *portio*, meaning a share or part of something. It’s related to the root *port-* (“carry”), as in “portable” and “transport,” because a portion is a part that is ‘carried out’ or taken from a whole.

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