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How to spell character

Character is spelled C-H-A-R-A-C-T-E-R.

hear itchar·ac·ter/k'ɛrɪktər/nounRules and real life

What it means: A person in a story or play.

In a sentence: The main character in the story is a brave knight.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: characteristic, characterize, characterization, good-character, reference-letter. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Character comes from the Greek word ‘kharaktēr,’ which originally meant an engraved mark or stamp. Over time, it came to mean someone’s distinctive qualities, and from there developed the idea of a ‘character reference’ describing a person’s reliability and moral qualities for employers.

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