How to spell situation

hear itsit·u·a·tion/,sɪʧu'eɪʃən/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: A condition or position in which you find yourself.

In a sentence: The situation at the park was fun and cheerful.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as situtation or sitution.

Same family: situated, situational, position, condition. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Situation” comes from Latin *situatio*, from *situare* meaning “to place” or “to set”. It originally referred to the physical position of something, and over time it grew to mean any set of circumstances you are ‘placed’ in.

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

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