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How to spell situation

Situation is spelled S-I-T-U-A-T-I-O-N.

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.

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.

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