Colt or cult?
colt is a noun meaning “A young male horse”; cult is a noun meaning “The veneration, devotion, and religious rites given to a deity (especially in a…”. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) cult is about 3.3 times as common as colt.
What is the difference between colt and cult?
| colt | cult | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun, verb | noun, adjective |
| Meaning | A young male horse A young crane (bird) To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly | The veneration, devotion, and religious rites given to a deity (especially in a historical polytheistic context), or (in a Christian context) to a saint; a… informalA group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing Of or relating to a cult |
| Example | none recorded | imperial cult |
| Forms | colts | cults |
| Pronunciation | /kəʊlt/ [kɔʊlt] /kɒlt/ | /kʌlt/ [kʰʌlt] /ˈkɒlt/ |
| In writing | 3.7 times per million words | 12 times per million words |
Sources: colt and cult in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of colt and cult
colt
- 1
A young male horse
- 2
To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly
- 3
A revolver (gun) (from Colt's Manufacturing Company), associated especially but not exclusively with the American Wild West
- 4
A young crane (bird)
- 5
A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice
- 6
slangA professional cricketer during his first season
- 7
A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment
- 8
A young camel or donkey
cult
- 1
The veneration, devotion, and religious rites given to a deity (especially in a historical polytheistic context), or (in a Christian context) to a saint; a subset of worship
imperial cult
- 2
Of or relating to a cult
- 3
Abbreviation of culturist
Prog. Fish-Cult
- 4
informalA group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing
the heavy metal cult
- 5
Enjoyed by a small, loyal group
a cult horror movie
- 6
derogatoryA group, sect or movement following an unorthodox religious or philosophical system of beliefs, especially one in which members remove and exclude themselves from greater society, including family…
Two former cult members explain the difficulties they had extricating themselves from it
- 7
Alternative form of kvlt
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, colt or cult?
colt appears 3.7 times per million words; cult 12 times per million words.
colt 3.7 times per million wordscult 12 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).