How to spell editor

hear ited·i·tor/'ɛdɪtər/nounRules and real life

What it means: A person who corrects or prepares writing for publication.

In a sentence: The editor fixed the story for the newspaper.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as editior or editer.

Same family: edition, editorial, edited, editing, editor-in-chief. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Editor comes from the Latin word 'editor,' meaning ‘producer’ or ‘publisher,’ from 'edere' meaning ‘to put forth’ or ‘to bring out.’ The same root also gives us 'edition,' the version of a book or newspaper that an editor prepares for the public.

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