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How to spell region

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

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as regian or regin.

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.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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