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How to spell professor

What it means: A teacher at a college or university.

In a sentence: The professor showed us how to do a fun science experiment. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double s, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as proffessor or professer.

Same family: profession, professional, professorial, professed. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Professor comes from Latin roots meaning “to declare publicly.” In medieval universities, a professor was someone who publicly declared and taught a subject as an expert.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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