nutritious
/nuːˈtɹɪʃəs/adjective
nutritious is spelled N-U-T-R-I-T-I-O-U-S. The wrong spelling people search most is nutricious: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Nutritious is an adjective meaning “Providing nutrients; healthy to eat or drink”.
How many letters and syllables are in nutritious?
| Letters | 10: N-U-T-R-I-T-I-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.5 times per million words; the 22,965th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, nutricious, about 100 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 nutritious?
Nutritious is spelled N-U-T-R-I-T-I-O-U-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for nutritious 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 nutritious?
Nutritious appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,965th 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 nutritious?
- UK /njuːˈtɹɪʃəs/
- US /nuːˈtɹɪʃəs/
Nutritious 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-nutritious.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with nutritious?
10 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as nutritious from its last stressed vowel (/ɪʃəs/):
- delicious
- ambitious
- fictitious
- superstitious
- auspicious
- pernicious
- judicious
- surreptitious
- bootylicious
- lubricious
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 nutritious
- more nutritious comparative
- most nutritious superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does nutritious mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Providing nutrients; healthy to eat or drink.
- 2
Salutary.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Nutritious in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense providing nutrients:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | nutritif |
| German | nahrhaft |
| Portuguese | nutritivo, nutriente, nutritício, alimentoso, alimentício |
| Spanish | nutritivo, nutriente, alimentoso, alimentador, alimenticio |
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 nutritious come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin nūtrītius, from nūtrītus, from nūtrīre.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).