intuitive
/ɪnˈt(j)uɪtɪv/adjective, noun
intuitive is spelled I-N-T-U-I-T-I-V-E. The wrong spelling people search most is intutive: about 180 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 36 of all searches for the word. Intuitive is an adjective meaning “Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought”.
How many letters and syllables are in intuitive?
| Letters | 9: I-N-T-U-I-T-I-V-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.7 times per million words; the 13,496th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, intutive, about 180 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell intuitive?
Intuitive is spelled I-N-T-U-I-T-I-V-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 36 of the searches for intuitive in either form.
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 intuitive?
Intuitive appears 3.7 times per million words in written English, the 13,496th 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 intuitive?
- UK /ɪnˈtjuːɪtɪv/
- UK [ɪnˈt͡ʃuːɪtɪv]
- US /ɪnˈt(j)uɪtɪv/
Intuitive has 4 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-GB-intuitive.ogg, En-us-intuitive.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with intuitive?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as intuitive from its last stressed vowel (/uɪtɪv/):
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 intuitive
- more intuitive comparative
- most intuitive superlative
- intuitives plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does intuitive mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.
The intuitive response turned out to be correct.
- 2
Easily understood or grasped by intuition.
Designing software with an intuitive interface can be difficult.
- 3
Having a marked degree of intuition.
noun
- 1
One who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Intuitive in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense automatic, without requiring conscious thought:
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 intuitive come from?
Borrowed from Middle French intuitif, from Medieval Latin intuitivus, from Latin intueri.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).