How to spell registration

hear itreg·is·tra·tion/,rɛdʒɪ'streɪʃən/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: The act of signing up for something.

In a sentence: We filled out the registration form for the soccer team.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as regestration or registation.

Same family: registered, registering, registrar, enrollment. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Registration” comes from the verb “register,” which traces back to the Latin word “regesta,” meaning a list or record. The -tion ending turns the verb into a noun, so “registration” originally meant the act of recording names and now can also mean the group of people who signed up at the same time.

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

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