How to spell version

hear itver·sion/'vɜrʒən/nounRules and real life

What it means: A specific form or variant of something.

In a sentence: The newest version of the game has more fun levels to play!

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as vertion or vershion.

Same family: verse, invert, convert, diversion, revision. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Version” comes from Latin *versio*, from *vertere*, meaning “to turn.” It originally had the sense of a “turning” or “change,” which is why a new version is like a “turned” or changed form of the original.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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