How to spell reason

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?

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as reson or reazon.

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."

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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