How to spell magician

hear itma·gi·cian/mə'dʒɪʃən/nounPrefixes and work

What it means: An entertainer who performs illusions and tricks.

In a sentence: The magician pulled a rabbit out of his hat.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as magican or magitian.

Same family: magical, magically, magician's, magic trick. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Magician comes from the word magic, which goes back to Old French and Latin forms from Greek ‘magos,’ meaning a wise man or sorcerer. The ending -ian was added to mean “a person who does,” so a magician is literally “a person who does magic.”

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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