coulter
/ˈkəʊltə/noun
coulter is spelled C-O-U-L-T-E-R: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 24,170th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, coulter means “A cutter, consisting of a blade in either knife form or disk form, attached to the ploughbeam of a plough to cut the sward, in front of the…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of coulter is coulters.
How many letters and syllables are in coulter?
| Letters | 7: C-O-U-L-T-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.4 times per million words; the 24,170th 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 and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 coulter?
Coulter appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 24,170th 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 coulter?
- UK /ˈkəʊltə/
Coulter has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-colter.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Sapaa-coulter.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with coulter
Also written: colter.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with coulter?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as coulter (/əʊltə/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: cloture.
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 coulter
- coulters plural
- colter US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does coulter mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A cutter, consisting of a blade in either knife form or disk form, attached to the ploughbeam of a plough to cut the sward, in front of the ploughshare and mouldboard.
Holonyms: plough, plow < implement
- 2
UKThe part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Coulter in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense cutter attached to the beam of a plow:
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 coulter come from?
Inherited from Middle English culter, from Old English culter, from Latin culter (“a knife”). For the phonetic development, see poultry.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).