How to spell biography

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

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as biograpy or biogrophy.

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.’

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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