How to spell precision

hear itpre·ci·sion/prɪ'sɪʒən/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: The quality of being exact.

In a sentence: The artist painted with great precision to make sure every detail was perfect.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as precison or precission.

Same family: precisely, imprecise, imprecision, precision-engineering, accuracy. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Precision” comes from the Latin verb *praecīdĕre*, meaning “to cut off,” through French *précision*. The idea is that you ‘cut away’ anything extra, leaving only what is exact and accurate.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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