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How to spell season

Season is spelled S-E-A-S-O-N.

hear itsea·son/'sizən/nounLong vowels

What it means: One of the four main periods of the year.

In a sentence: Winter is my favorite season because of the snow.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: seasons, seasonal, seasonally, off-season, in-season. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Season comes from Old French “seson,” from Latin “satio,” meaning “sowing” or “planting time,” because the year was once thought of mainly in terms of farming cycles.

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