gratuity

Other forms of gratuity

plural

gratuities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gratuity

What does gratuity mean?

gratuity means "a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gratuity?

gratuity has 4 syllables: gra-tu-i-ty. The stress falls on "tu". In IPA it is /ɡɹəˈtuɪti/.

What is another word for gratuity?

Close synonyms include tip, pourboire, baksheesh, bakshish, bakshis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gratuity a common word?

gratuity is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.