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How to spell zonal

What it means: Divided into or relating to separate regions or sections.

In a sentence: The plants in the zonal garden are arranged in circles. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as zonel or zonall.

Same family: zone, zoned, zoning, zoned-out. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Zonal comes from the noun 'zone,' which entered English from Latin 'zona' meaning a belt or girdle. Over time, the idea of a belt around something led to the modern sense of bands or regions on maps and the globe, giving us words like 'zonal' for anything organized by zones.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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