cahoots
ca·hoots/kəˈhuts/noun, verb
cahoots is spelled C-A-H-O-O-T-S: 7 letters and 2 syllables (ca·hoots). It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 50,539th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cahoots means “Chiefly preceded by in: collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in cahoots?
| Letters | 7: C-A-H-O-O-T-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: ca·hoots |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 50,539th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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 cahoots?
Cahoots appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 50,539th 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 cahoots?
- UK /kəˈhuːts/
- US /kəˈhuts/
Cahoots has 2 syllables, split ca·hoots in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-cahoots.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with cahoots?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as cahoots from its last stressed vowel (/uts/):
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 cahoots
- cahoot singular
- kahootz
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cahoots mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Chiefly preceded by in: collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason.
Those two are definitely in cahoots.
- 2
plural of cahoot (“a company or partnership; a group of people working together, chiefly for a nefarious reason, hence, a collaboration or collusion; an accomplice, partner”)
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of cahoot
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cahoots in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious reason – see also collaborat:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does cahoots come from?
From earlier cahoot + -s (suffix forming regular plurals of nouns).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).