How to spell autobiography

hear itau·to·bi·og·ra·phy/,ɔtəbaɪ'ɑgrəfi/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: A book about your own life experiences.

In a sentence: Maya wrote an autobiography about her exciting adventures.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as autobiograpy or autobiogrphy.

Same family: bio, biographer, biographical, autobiographical, memoir. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Autobiography” comes from three Greek parts: auto- meaning “self,” bio meaning “life,” and -graphy meaning “writing.” The word became popular in the 18th–19th centuries when more people began publishing life stories in their own voices.

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