Five Hard Words Play today

Tier two of five

How to spell computation

What it means

the procedure of calculating

How it sounds

/ˌkɑmpjəˈteɪʃən/

Why it catches people out

Compute drops its e before -ation.

The spellings people reach for

In a sentence

The computation took several minutes.

First appeared in

Puzzle #78 — October 10, 2026