There are some doubts about vocabulary and it is important to know how to solve them ourselves. When we doubt how a word is written, we can write it on paper in the ways we think, but the doubts may arise again, so the first thing to do when we doubt how a word is written or if it is we are writing correctly, is to search the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE). They have a page on the Internet through which you can put the word you want to search for in the upper right corner and see if it is correct or not. In the event that when writing it, another tab opens in which they put the meaning of said word, it is that it is correct, but if another tab appears in which it says that that word does not exist, then it is that you are writing it wrongly.
In this case, we want to know how conscious or conscious is written, the first thing we will do is enter each word in the search engine. In the case of the first we see that no result comes out, and in the case of the second that gives us several solutions such as *That he has knowledge of something or is aware of it, especially of the acts themselves and their consequences. Aware of his mistake*.
With this we find out how the word is written, but it is also important to know why it is written this way and not the first way, without the s between the n and the c.
The word comes from the Latin consciens, so etymologically the s is already given and we should not remove it. This is another way to find out how words are spelled by looking at their etymological formation. Since they start from the same root, that is, consciens keeps the whole word except the last s, which would go from consciens to conscious, that is, it changes the end of the word but its root remains the same.
As an orthographic rule, between the c and the n there must be another consonant, in this case the s. A person cannot be aware of anything since this word does not exist, in fact if we write a word in Word or in the Google search engine and it is not correct it will appear either with a red line below, or Google will suggest another word since that doesn’t exist.
Knowing how words are written is very simple, because even if you don’t know about it or have doubts, there is always some method to find out, although the RAE is always the one you should go to.
If we are writing in Word, we will see how the word conscious does not have any problem but the same thing does not happen with conscious because the red line appears, in this case we can click on it and see the options that the program suggests.
This adjective usually presents some problems for people because they don’t know how to write it, but if you have any doubts, remember that between n and c it seems that something is always missing and that they don’t usually go together, so if you think that a consonant is missing, then it is that you must put an s between them.
Tips for writing consciously or consciously
- Whenever you doubt how to write a word, it is better that you look at the Royal Spanish Academy to avoid problems. Many times the s, not the c, we eat them if we want to when speaking and we think that they are not put in writing either, but it is not like that.
- You could have downloaded an application on your mobile to know if you are writing it correctly. They are very useful when you doubt how words are written. More than anything, in the mobile Word, many times it does not correct the words that are misspelled, in the same way that it does not tell you when you have not put a tilde.
- If you ever don’t know exactly how a word is spelled and have no way of finding out, you can always use a synonym, maybe not exactly what you mean, but better come close before you misspell it.
- If the only way you have to find out how to spell conscious or conscious is to ask someone, don’t be shy, we all have doubts about how to write some words and nothing happens.
- Before starting to write any word, always think about how you think it sounds best. If you remove the s it seems that the word is missing something, then it is certain that it must be put. Many times it is necessary to say the word out loud to see how it sounds and to know the correct way to spell it.
- You can write the word on a piece of paper in the different ways you think it has, and thus, visually, it is usually much easier to recognize which one is correct.