How to spell tuition

hear ittu·i·tion/tu'ɪʃən/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: A fee paid for instruction, especially in education.

In a sentence: My sister needs help with her tuition for dance classes.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as tution or tutition.

Same family: tuition-free, tuition-based, tuition-paying, fee, scholarship. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Tuition” comes from Latin *tuitio*, meaning ‘protection’ or ‘guardianship’; over time, the meaning shifted to ‘careful instruction’ and eventually to the fee paid for that instruction. In British English, “tuition” often means ‘teaching,’ while in American English it usually refers to the money paid for education.

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

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