funt
/fʌnt/noun
funt is a noun meaning “An old Russian unit of weight, approximately 410 grams” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-N-T, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of funt is funts.
What does funt mean?
noun
- 1
An old Russian unit of weight, approximately 410 grams.
- 2
Pound sterling: the currency of Great Britain; money generally.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce funt?
- /fʌnt/
- [funt]
- /fʊnt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-funt.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of funt
- funts plural
- foont
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is funt?
Funt appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th 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).
Where does funt come from?
Borrowed from Russian фунт (funt). Doublet of pfund, pood, pound, and punt.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).