How to spell selection

hear itse·lec·tion/sɪ'lɛkʃən/nounRules and real life

What it means: A choice or variety of items.

In a sentence: The ice cream shop had a big selection of flavors to choose from.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as seletion or selecton.

Same family: selected, selective, selectional, selection process, reselection. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Selection” comes from Latin *selectio*, from *seligere* meaning “to choose out.” The same root also gives us words like “select,” “selected,” and “selective,” all linked to the idea of careful choosing.

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

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