How to spell science

hear itsci·ence/'saɪəns/nounSounds

What it means: The study of the natural world through observation and experiments.

In a sentence: Science helps us learn about the stars and planets.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear, and the order of ie. Often misspelled as sience or sciense.

Same family: scientist, scientific, scientifically, science-fiction, natural-science. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Science comes from the Latin word "scientia," meaning "knowledge" or "to know." In earlier English, it simply meant general knowledge, but over time it narrowed to mean systematic study using observation and experiments.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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