How to spell sequence

hear itse·quence/'sikwəns/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: A following of one thing after another.

In a sentence: We put the story cards in the right sequence to tell the tale.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as sequece or sequance.

Same family: sequel, consequence, subsequence, sequential, frequency. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Sequence” comes from the Latin word “sequi,” meaning “to follow.” In filmmaking, this idea of “things that follow” became a technical term for a series of shots that follow each other to tell a part of the story.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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