How to spell prescription

hear itpre·scrip·tion/prɪ'skripʃən/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: A written order for medicine from a doctor.

In a sentence: The doctor gave me a prescription for my medicine.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as perscription or presciption.

Same family: prescribe, prescribed, prescribing, prescriptive, subscription. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Prescription” comes from Latin roots: *prae-* meaning “before” and *scribere* meaning “to write,” so it literally meant “something written beforehand.” Over time, it came to mean a doctor’s written order for medicine, given before you receive the drug.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa) · -tion, -sion or -cian? · Prefixes keep every letter

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