How to spell electrician

hear ite·lec·tri·cian/ɪlɛk'trɪʃən/nounPrefixes and work

What it means: A person who installs and repairs wiring and electrical systems.

In a sentence: The electrician fixed the lights in our house today.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as electrican or electritian.

Same family: electric, electricity, electrical, electron, electronics. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Electrician” comes from “electric,” which traces back to the Greek word for amber, because rubbing amber produces static electricity. The suffix “-ian” was added to mean a person who works with or specializes in electricity.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa) · -tion, -sion or -cian?

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