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attitude

at·ti·tudeUK /ˈætɪt͡ʃuːd/noun, verb

attitude is spelled A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E, 3 syllables: at·ti·tude. The wrong spelling people search most is attitide: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 303 of all searches for the word. Attitude is a noun meaning “The position of the body or way of carrying oneself”. The plural of attitude is attitudes.

How many letters and syllables are in attitude?

Letters8: A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E
Syllables3: at·ti·tude
In writing38 times per million words; the 2,581st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, attitide, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them)

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How do you spell attitude?

Attitude is spelled A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 302 of the searches for attitude in either form.

attitudethe right spelling6,010 searches a month
attitidei in place of u20 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is attitude?

Attitude appears 38 times per million words in written English, the 2,581st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce attitude?

  • UK /ˈætɪt͡ʃuːd/
  • UK /ˈætɪˌtjuːd/
  • British /ˈatɪt͡ʃʉwd/

Attitude has 3 syllables, split at·ti·tude in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-attitude.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of attitude

  • attitudes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • attituding participle, present
  • attituded participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does attitude mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The position of the body or way of carrying oneself.

    The ballet dancer walked with a graceful attitude.

  2. 2

    A disposition or state of mind.

    Don't give me your negative attitude.

  3. 3

    CanadaUKUSinformalUnpleasant behavior.

    He doesn't take attitude from anybody.

  4. 4

    The orientation of a vehicle or other object relative to the horizon, direction of motion, other objects, etc.

    The airliner had to land with a nose-up attitude after the incident.

  5. 5

    A position similar to an arabesque, but with the raised leg bent at the knee.

verb

  1. 1

    To assume or to place in a particular position or orientation; to pose.

  2. 2

    To express an attitude through one's posture, bearing, tone of voice, etc.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Attitude in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchposture (position of the body or way of carrying oneself), état d'esprit, attitude (disposition or state of mind)
GermanHaltung (position of the body or way of carrying oneself), Einstellung, Attitüde (disposition or state of mind), Orientierung, Ausrichtung (orientation of a vehicle)
Portuguesepostura (position of the body or way of carrying oneself), atitude (disposition or state of mind)
Spanishpostura, actitud (position of the body or way of carrying oneself)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does attitude come from?

From French attitude, from Italian attitudine (“attitude, aptness”), from Medieval Latin aptitūdō (“aptitude”) and actitūdō (“acting, posture”), from Latin aptō and actitō. Doublet of aptitude.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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