How to spell season

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. Often misspelled as seeson or seasion.

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.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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