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How to spell prehistoric

Prehistoric is spelled P-R-E-H-I-S-T-O-R-I-C.

What it means: Relating to times before recorded history.

In a sentence: Dinosaurs lived in prehistoric times. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: history, historical, prehistory, prehistorian, prehistorically. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Prehistoric comes from the prefix "pre-" meaning "before" and the word "historic," which comes from Greek via Latin and French. The term literally means "before history" and began to be widely used in the 1800s when scientists started studying human life before written records.

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