How to spell playwright

hear itplay·wright/'pleɪ,raɪt/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: A person who writes scripts or dramas for the stage.

In a sentence: The playwright wrote a funny script for the school play.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as playwrite or playright.

Same family: play, dramatist, drama, screenwriter, scriptwriter. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Playwright looks like it should mean 'someone who writes plays,' but the old word 'wright' actually means a maker or builder, like in 'shipwright.' So a playwright is literally a 'play builder,' a person who crafts plays as works of art.

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