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How to spell reason

Reason is spelled R-E-A-S-O-N. It rhymes with season and is spelled the same way: EA, then -SON.

hear itrea·son/'rizən/nounLong vowels

What it means: The explanation for something.

In a sentence: Can you find the reason why the sky is blue?

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Same family: reasoning, reasonable, reasoned, reasonably, rational. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The verb "reason" comes from the noun "reason," both from Old French "raison" and Latin "ratio," meaning thinking, calculation, or understanding. It is related to the English word "rational," which also comes from the Latin root "ratio."

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