hut
/hʌt/noun, interjection
hut is spelled H-U-T: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 6.9 times per million words in written English, the 9,045th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hut means “A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hut is huts.
How many letters and syllables are in hut?
| Letters | 3: H-U-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.9 times per million words; the 9,045th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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 hut?
Hut appears 6.9 times per million words in written English, the 9,045th 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 hut?
- US /hʌt/
- Australia /hɐt/
- /hʊt/
Hut 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: En-us-hut.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with hut?
8 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as hut from its last stressed vowel (/ʌt/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: thu.
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 hut
- huts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- hutting participle, present
- hutted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does hut mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.
a thatched hut; a mud hut; a shepherd’s hut
- 2
A small wooden shed.
a groundsman’s hut
- 3
obsoleteA small stack of grain.
interjection
- 1
Called by the quarterback to prepare the team for a play.
noun
- 1
Acronym of home/household using television.
verb
- 1
archaicTo provide (someone) with shelter in a hut.
to hut troops in winter quarters
- 2
archaicTo take shelter in a hut.
- 3
obsoleteTo stack (sheaves of grain).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Hut in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hutte |
| German | Hütte |
| Portuguese | cabana, choupana , casebre |
| Spanish | cabaña, chamizo , choza |
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 hut come from?
From Middle English *hutte, hotte, from both Old English hōd and Old English hȳdan (“to hide”) and influenced by Anglo-Norman hute or hutte, from Middle French hutte, from Old French hute (“hut”), hute (“cottage”), from Old High German hutta (“hut, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *hudjǭ, *hudjō (“hut”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewt- (“to deck; cover; covering; skin”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).