Word guide

How do you spell illustration?

I-L-L-U-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N

Illustration is spelled I-L-L-U-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N with two l's right after the first i. Dropping one l is the most frequent error. On Cheap Stock Photos the term shows up as a tag alongside the photographic stock photos.

Spelling tip

Double l after the i, single s, and the standard -tion ending.

What it means

An illustration is a drawn, painted or rendered picture rather than a camera capture. Some stock photos on this site lean toward illustration in style, and their tags say so.

Common misspellings

  • ilustration → illustration
  • illustation → illustration
  • illustrasion → illustration
  • illustraion → illustration
  • ilustracion → illustration

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