practitioner
/pɹækˈtɪʃənəɹ/noun
practitioner is spelled P-R-A-C-T-I-T-I-O-N-E-R. The wrong spelling people search most is practioner: about 840 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Practitioner is a noun meaning “A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine”. The plural of practitioner is practitioners.
How many letters and syllables are in practitioner?
| Letters | 12: P-R-A-C-T-I-T-I-O-N-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.3 times per million words; the 12,397th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, practioner, about 840 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 practitioner?
Practitioner is spelled P-R-A-C-T-I-T-I-O-N-E-R. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for practitioner 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 practitioner?
Practitioner appears 4.3 times per million words in written English, the 12,397th 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 practitioner?
- UK /pɹækˈtɪʃənə/
- US /pɹækˈtɪʃənəɹ/
Practitioner 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-practitioner.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with practitioner?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as practitioner from its last stressed vowel (/ɪʃənəɹ/):
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 practitioner
- practitioners plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does practitioner mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
- 2
One who does anything customarily or habitually.
- 3
datedA sly or artful person.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Practitioner in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person who practices a profession or art:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | praticien |
| German | Praktiker, Fachmann |
| Portuguese | praticante |
| Spanish | practicante, practicanta, practicador, profesionista |
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.