How to spell subscription

hear itsub·scrip·tion/səb'skrɪpʃən/nounHidden vowels

What it means: A payment for regular issues of a publication.

In a sentence: I have a subscription to my favorite magazine.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as subcription or subscrition.

Same family: subscribe, subscriber, subscribed, subscription-based, inscription. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Subscription” comes from Latin roots: sub- meaning “under” and scribere meaning “to write.” Long ago, it literally referred to writing your name at the bottom of a document to show agreement—just like signing up today, but with ink instead of clicks.

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

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