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How to spell visitor

hear itvis·i·tor/'vɪzɪtər/nounRules and real life

What it means: Someone who comes to see another.

In a sentence: The visitor brought a big, shiny gift for everyone.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as visiter or visitour.

Same family: visits, visited, visiting, visitation. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Visitor comes from the Latin word 'visitare', meaning 'to go to see' or 'to come to inspect'. The -or ending is a common Latin suffix in English that means 'a person who does something', as in 'actor' or 'doctor'.

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