Beaurocrat or bureaucrat?
Did you mean bureaucrat? Here's the right spelling and how to remember it.
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beaurocrat
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bureaucrat
Correct spelling: bureaucrat. Misspelling: beaurocrat.
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Memory tip
Bureau + crat: the start is spelled like bureau, a desk or office.
Why people write “beaurocrat”
“beaurocrat” differs from “bureaucrat” in 4 places: it leaves out the U; it leaves out the R; it adds an extra letter, R; and it adds an extra vowel, O.
Spell-checkers catch the mistake in a document, but not in a handwritten note, a text message or a word game. Writing the word out a few times while saying the tricky part aloud is the quickest way to make bureaucrat automatic.
Other misspellings of “bureaucrat”
People also write “burocrat”. Here is where each one goes wrong.
“burocrat”
Correct spelling: bureaucrat. Misspelling: burocrat.
letters the misspelling gets wrong or leaves out letters that shouldn't be there
“burocrat” differs from “bureaucrat” in 3 places: it leaves out the E; it leaves out the A; and it writes O where bureaucrat has U.
What does “bureaucrat” mean?
bureaucrat noun
- an official of a bureaucracy
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Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Full dictionary entry
“Bureaucrat” in a sentence
- A bureaucrat stamped the form.
Is “bureaucrat” a playable word?
14 points in Scrabble · 18 in Words With Friends
- Scrabble (US)
- Scrabble (UK)
- Words With Friends
“beaurocrat” is not accepted in any of these games. See every word you can make from BUREAUCRAT.