Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nutritional

/nuˈtɹɪʃ.ə.nəl/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.64 in modern English

Syllables: nu-tri-tion-al
IPA: /nuˈtɹɪʃ.ə.nəl/

11

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of, pertaining to, or providing nutrition.

Example Sentences

"Maroney said she’s also interested in learning about the complete nutritional makeup of the two Lunchable products to determine if they fully meet the current and proposed NSLP nutritional guidelines."

Etymology

From nutrition + -al.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /nuˈtɹɪʃ.ə.nəl/
British English: /njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ə.nəl/

Inflected Forms

more nutritional (comparative) most nutritional (superlative)

Derived Forms

antinutritional hypernutritional hyponutritional immunonutritional macronutritional micronutritional nonnutritional nutriceutical nutricosmetic nutritionalist nutritionally overnutritional

Phrases

nutritional yeast

Frequently Paired Words

nutrient nutritious

Synonyms

nutritionary

Rhymes With

additional traditional non-traditional transitional conditional unconditional compositional nontraditional depositional untraditional

Questions

How do you pronounce nutritional?: The recorded pronunciation is /nuˈtɹɪʃ.ə.nəl/.
What does nutritional mean?: Of, pertaining to, or providing nutrition.
Where does nutritional come from?: From nutrition + -al.

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