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How to spell registration

Registration is spelled R-E-G-I-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N. Take register, drop its last E, and add -ATION: reg-is-tra-tion.

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

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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.

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