nutrition
/nuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/noun
nutrition is spelled N-U-T-R-I-T-I-O-N: 9 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 6,047th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, nutrition means “The organic process by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of nutrition is nutritions.
How many letters and syllables are in nutrition?
| Letters | 9: N-U-T-R-I-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 6,047th 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 nutrition?
Nutrition appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 6,047th 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 nutrition?
- UK /njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ən/
- US /nuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/
- US /njuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/
Nutrition 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-nutrition.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with nutrition?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as nutrition from its last stressed vowel (/ɪʃən/):
- position
- competition
- opposition
- permission
- composition
- acquisition
- coalition
- physician
- politician
- admission
- expedition
- ambition
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 nutrition
- nutritions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does nutrition mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The organic process by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance.
- 2
The academic discipline around the scientific study of this process.
- 3
That which nourishes; nutriment.
I accidentally ate a worm which was in my apple - my uncle said the extra nutrition would do me good.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Nutrition in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense nutrition:
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 nutrition come from?
Borrowed from Middle French nutrition, from Old French nutricion, from Latin nutritio.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).