How to spell musician

hear itmu·si·cian/mju'zɪʃən/nounPrefixes and work

What it means: A person who plays an instrument or sings.

In a sentence: The musician played a happy tune on his guitar.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as musican or musicain.

Same family: musical, musically, musicology, musicianship. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Musician comes from the Old French word “musicien,” based on Latin “musica” meaning music. The suffix “-ian” is added to show a person connected with a field, just like in “librarian” or “historian.”

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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