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How to spell biography

Biography is spelled B-I-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y.

hear itbi·og·ra·phy/baɪ'ɑgrəfi/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: A written account of someone's life events.

In a sentence: Her biography tells the story of her amazing adventures.

The part people get wrong

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Same family: autobiography, biographical, biographer, memoir, life-story. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Biography” comes from Greek: ‘bio’ meaning ‘life’ and ‘graphia’ meaning ‘writing’. So a biography is literally ‘writing about a life.’

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