How to spell beautician

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.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as beauticion or beautitian.

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.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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