balut
/baˈlʊt/noun
balut is spelled B-A-L-U-T: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 117,098th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, balut means “Asian street food consisting of a developing duck embryo boiled alive and eaten in the shell” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of balut is baluts.
How many letters and syllables are in balut?
| Letters | 5: B-A-L-U-T |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 15 million words; the 117,098th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is balut?
Balut appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 117,098th 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 balut?
- /baˈlʊt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q34057_(tgl)-Mlgc1998-balut.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with balut?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as balut.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tubal.
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 balut
- baluts plural
- balot
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does balut mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Asian street food consisting of a developing duck embryo boiled alive and eaten in the shell
- 2
A dice game similar to Yahtzee
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does balut come from?
Borrowed from Malay balut and Tagalog balut.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).