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How to spell passenger

What it means: A person traveling in a vehicle.

In a sentence: The passenger waved at the train as it arrived at the station. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double s. Often misspelled as pasenger or passanger.

Same family: train, pilot, driver, commuter, traveler. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Passenger” comes from Old French *passager*, meaning ‘traveler’ or ‘passing by.’ It is related to the word “passage,” which originally referred to a journey or the act of passing from one place to another.

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