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How to spell statistician

What it means: A person who collects and studies numerical data.

In a sentence: The statistician counted the stars in the sky for his project. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as statitician or statistican.

Same family: statistics, statistical, statistically, data. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Statistician” comes from the word “statistics,” which originally referred to data about the state or government. The suffix “-ian” turns it into ‘a person who works with statistics,’ so a statistician is literally ‘a statistics person.’

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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