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How to spell electrician

Electrician is spelled E-L-E-C-T-R-I-C-I-A-N.

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.

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.

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