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tuition

UK /tjuːˈɪʃən/noun

tuition is spelled T-U-I-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is tution: about 680 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 22 of all searches for the word. Tuition is a noun meaning “The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor”. The plural of tuition is tuitions.

How many letters and syllables are in tuition?

Letters7: T-U-I-T-I-O-N
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing9.3 times per million words; the 7,445th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, tution, about 680 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 tuition?

Tuition is spelled T-U-I-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 22 of the searches for tuition in either form.

tuitionthe right spelling14,360 searches a month
tutiona missing i680 searches a month

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 tuition?

Tuition appears 9.3 times per million words in written English, the 7,445th 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 tuition?

  • UK /tjuːˈɪʃən/
  • UK /t͡ʃuːˈɪʃən/
  • Australia /tjʉːˈɪʃən/

Tuition 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-tuition.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with tuition?

7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as tuition from its last stressed vowel (/ɪʃən/, British pronunciation):

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 tuition

  • tuitions plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does tuition mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    IrelandUKThe training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.

  2. 2

    AustraliaIndiaPaid private classes taken outside of formal education; tutoring. (also used attributively)

    tuition classes

  3. 3

    CanadaUSA sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a private school, boarding school, university, or college).

    The school's tuition will increase by five percent next year.

  4. 4

    archaicCare, guardianship.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Tuition in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchfrais de scolarité, frais d'inscription, minerval (sum of money paid for instruction), cours (training or instruction provided by a teacher…)
GermanStudiengebühr, Unterrichtsgebühr (sum of money paid for instruction), Tutorium, Unterricht (training or instruction provided by a teacher…)
Portuguesepropina (sum of money paid for instruction), tutelagem (training or instruction provided by a teacher…)
Spanishcolegiatura, matrícula (sum of money paid for instruction), enseñanza, clases, tutoría (training or instruction provided by a teacher…)

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 tuition come from?

From Anglo-Norman tuycioun, from Old French tuicion, from Latin tuitiō (“guard, protection, defense”), from tuēri (“to watch, guard, see, observe”). Compare intuition, tutor.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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