prodigy
PROD-ih-jeenounMeaning a young person with an amazing talent
Memory hook PRO-digy: a PRO, and only three. Little Theo is only three, yet he plays the violin like a pro. The crowd can’t believe it: he is a prodigy!
At six, the piano prodigy played a concert in a packed hall.
In context Most children her age were learning to add, but Ivy was a math prodigy: at eight, she was solving puzzles that stumped her brother’s high school teacher.
Similar genius, wonder child, wunderkind
From Latin prodigium, “a wonder, a sign of things to come.”