How to spell verification

hear it/,vɛrifɪ'keɪʃən/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: Proof that something is correct.

In a sentence: The teacher used verification to check our answers.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as verfication or varification.

Same family: verified, verifying, verifiable, verification-code. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Verification” comes from the Latin word “verus,” meaning “true,” and the suffix “-fication,” meaning “making” or “doing.” So its original sense is literally “the making of truth,” which nicely matches the idea of checking that something is really correct.

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

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