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How to spell solution

hear itso·lu·tion/sə'luʃən/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: An answer or explanation to a problem or question.

In a sentence: The solution to the puzzle made everyone smile.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as sulution or solusion.

Same family: solved, solving, resolution, answer. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Solution” comes from Latin *solutio*, meaning “a loosening” or “untying.” The idea is that when you find a solution, you ‘untie’ or ‘loosen’ a problem so it is no longer stuck.

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

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