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grout

/ɡɹaʊt/noun, verb

grout is spelled G-R-O-U-T: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 35,748th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, grout means “A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of grout is grouts.

How many letters and syllables are in grout?

Letters5: G-R-O-U-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 35,748th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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 grout?

Grout appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 35,748th 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 grout?

  • US /ɡɹaʊt/
  • Canada /ɡɹʌut/
  • Australia /ɡɹæɔt/

Grout has one syllable (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-grout.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with grout?

10 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as grout from its last stressed vowel (/aʊt/):

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 grout

  • grouts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • grewt
  • groute
  • grut
  • grouting participle, present
  • grouted participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does grout mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry.

  2. 2

    archaicCoarse meal; groats.

  3. 3

    archaicDregs, sediment.

  4. 4

    UKobsoleteA kind of beer or ale.

verb

  1. 1

    To insert mortar between tiles.

    I spent the whole afternoon grouting the kitchen floor.

  2. 2

    To affix with mortar.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Grout in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchenduit de jointement, coulis (mortar used between tiles), jointoyer (insert mortar between tiles)
GermanFugenmörtel (mortar used between tiles), verfugen (insert mortar between tiles), Grieß (coarse meal), Satz (dregs)
Portugueserejunte (mortar used between tiles), rejuntar, aplicar rejunte (insert mortar between tiles)
Spanishfragüe, rejunte, lechada (mortar used between tiles), sémola (coarse meal), sedimento (dregs)

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 grout come from?

From Middle English growte, grut, from Old English grūt (“dregs; coarse meal”), from Proto-West Germanic *grūt, from Proto-Germanic *grūtą (compare Dutch gruit (“dregs”), German Grauß, Norwegian grut (“ground”)), lengthening of Proto-Germanic *grutą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to grind, rub”). Related to grit.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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