tutor

Other forms of tutor

plural

tutors·

past tense

tutorred·

present participle

tutorring·

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 tutor

What does tutor mean?

tutor means "be a tutor to someone; give individual instruction". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tutor?

tutor has 2 syllables: tu-tor. The stress falls on "tu". In IPA it is /ˈtutɚ/.

What is another word for tutor?

Close synonyms include coach, private instructor. 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 tutor a common word?

tutor is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.