beautician
/bjuːˈtɪ(t)ʃən/noun
beautician is spelled B-E-A-U-T-I-C-I-A-N: 10 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 60,074th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, beautician means “Someone who does hair styling, manicures, and other beauty treatments” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of beautician is beauticians.
How many letters and syllables are in beautician?
| Letters | 10: B-E-A-U-T-I-C-I-A-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 60,074th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is beautician?
Beautician appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 60,074th 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 beautician?
- UK /bjuːˈtɪ(t)ʃən/
Beautician has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-beautician.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with beautician?
7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as beautician from its last stressed vowel (/ɪʃən/, British pronunciation):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of beautician
- beauticians plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does beautician mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Someone who does hair styling, manicures, and other beauty treatments.
Near-synonyms: hairstylist, hairdresser
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Beautician in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense one who does hair styling, manicures, and other beauty treatments:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | esthéticien, esthéticienne |
| German | Kosmetiker, Kosmetikerin, Schönheitspfleger, Schönheitspflegerin |
| Portuguese | esteticista |
| Spanish | esteticista |
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 beautician come from?
Blend of beauty + technician, originally coined in Cleveland, Ohio, c. 1920s.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).