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How to spell beautician

Beautician is spelled B-E-A-U-T-I-C-I-A-N.

hear itbeau·ti·cian/bju'tɪʃən/nounPrefixes and work

What it means: A person whose job is to style hair and give facial treatments.

In a sentence: The beautician styled my hair for the party.

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Same family: beautiful, beautify, beauty, cosmetologist. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Beautician comes from the word "beauty" plus the suffix "-cian," which means a person who practices a certain skill or art. The pattern is similar to words like "musician" and "technician," all ultimately rooted in Latin forms ending in -cianus.

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