How to spell possession

hear itpos·ses·sion/pə'zɛʃən/nounRules and real life

What it means: An item or thing that someone owns.

In a sentence: I have a bright red ball as my favorite possession.

The part people get wrong

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

Same family: possessed, possessing, possessive, possessional, self-control. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Possession” comes from Latin *possidere*, meaning “to have and hold,” and originally referred to having control over something; over time, English also used it to describe having control over yourself, leading to the sense of calm self‑control found in the phrase “to keep your possession.”

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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