technician
/tɛkˈnɪʃən/noun
technician is spelled T-E-C-H-N-I-C-I-A-N. The wrong spelling people search most is technitian: about 240 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 29 of all searches for the word. Technician is a noun meaning “A person who studies or practises technology; an expert in a particular technology”. The plural of technician is technicians.
How many letters and syllables are in technician?
| Letters | 10: T-E-C-H-N-I-C-I-A-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.0 times per million words; the 11,198th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, technitian, about 240 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell technician?
Technician is spelled T-E-C-H-N-I-C-I-A-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 25 of the searches for technician 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 technician?
Technician appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th 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 technician?
- /tɛkˈnɪʃən/
Technician 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-technician.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of technician
- technicians plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does technician mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person who studies or practises technology; an expert in a particular technology.
The lift technician found the reason the lift wasn't working.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Technician in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense occupation:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | technicien, technicienne |
| German | Techniker, Technikerin |
| Portuguese | técnico |
| Spanish | técnico |
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 technician come from?
From technic + -ian.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).