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How to spell region

Region is spelled R-E-G-I-O-N. The J sound is a G, then -ION: re-gion, with the same GION ending as religion.

hear itre·gion/'ridʒən/nounRules and real life

What it means: A part of a larger area.

In a sentence: The region we live in has lots of beautiful trees.

The part people get wrong

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Same family: regional, regionally, regionalized, regionalization, area. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Region comes from Latin "regio," meaning a direction or district, originally related to the verb "regere," to rule or guide. In medical language, this idea of a marked-off district was applied to specific functional areas of the body, such as regions served by particular nerves.

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