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How to spell biologist

hear itbi·ol·o·gist/baɪ'ɑlədʒɪst/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: A scientist who studies living things.

In a sentence: The biologist studies animals in the forest.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as bioligist or biologest.

Same family: biological, biologically, microbiologist, marine-biologist. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Biologist comes from the word biology, which combines the Greek words “bios” (life) and “-logia” (study). So a biologist is literally a person who studies life in all its forms.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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