student
stu·dent/ˈstjuː.dn̩t/noun, adjective
student is spelled S-T-U-D-E-N-T, 2 syllables: stu·dent. The wrong spelling people search most is sudent: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 625 of all searches for the word. Student is a noun meaning “A person who studies or learns about a particular subject”. The plural of student is students.
How many letters and syllables are in student?
| Letters | 7: S-T-U-D-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: stu·dent |
| In writing | 105 times per million words; the 1,021st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, sudent, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 student?
Student is spelled S-T-U-D-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 626 of the searches for student 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 student?
Student appears 105 times per million words in written English, the 1,021st 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 student?
- /ˈstjuː.dn̩t/
- /ˈst͡ʃuː.dn̩t/
- /ˈstu.dn̩t/
Student has 2 syllables, split stu·dent in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-student.ogg, En-us-student.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-student.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with student?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as student.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: stunted.
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 student
- students plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does student mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person who studies or learns about a particular subject.
She is a student of human interactions.
- 2
A person who is formally enrolled at a school, a college or university, or another educational institution.
The students were out raising funds for rag week.
- 3
A person who is enrolled at a college or university (as contrasted with a pupil or schoolchild attending a primary or secondary school).
adjective
- 1
In training, learning a particular skill.
student teacher.
adjective
- 1
Clipping of Student's.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate student?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of student: stud.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Student in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | étudiant, étudiante, élève |
| German | Student, Studentin, Lernender m Lernende , Lernender, Lernende |
| Portuguese | estudante, aluno, aluna, estudioso, estudiosa |
| Spanish | estudiante , alumno, discente, educando |
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 student come from?
From Middle English student, studient, from Old French estudiant, estudiente, from Latin studēns, present participle of studeō (“dedicate oneself to, study”). Equivalent to stud(y) + -ent.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).