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How to spell comedian

What it means: A performer who tells jokes.

In a sentence: The comedian made everyone laugh with a funny joke. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as comidian or commedian.

Same family: comic, comical, stand-up, humor, entertainer. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Comedian comes from the word comedy, which goes back to Greek komoidia, meaning a kind of funny play or performance. The ending -ian is often used in English to mean a person connected with something, like musician or historian.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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