knoll
/noʊl/noun, verb
knoll is spelled K-N-O-L-L: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, knoll means “A small mound or rounded hill” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of knoll is knolls.
How many letters and syllables are in knoll?
| Letters | 5: K-N-O-L-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 32,798th 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 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 knoll?
Knoll appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,798th 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 knoll?
- UK /nəʊl/
- UK /nɒl/
- US /noʊl/
Knoll 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-knoll.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with knoll?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as knoll from its last stressed vowel (/oʊl/):
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 knoll
- knolls plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- knolling participle, present
- knolled participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does knoll mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A small mound or rounded hill.
grassy knoll
- 2
A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.
- 3
A knell.
verb
- 1
To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
- 2
To sound (something) like a bell; to knell.
- 3
To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc).
- 4
To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Knoll in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense small mound:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | monticule, tertre |
| German | Hügel, kleiner Hügel, Hügelchen, Hubbel, Anhöhe, Buckel |
| Portuguese | outeiro |
| Spanish | otero |
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 knoll come from?
From Middle English knol, knolle, from Old English cnoll (“summit”), from Proto-Germanic *knudan-, *knudla-, *knulla- (“lump”), possibly related to cnotta. Related to Old Norse knollr (found only in names of places), Dutch knol (“tuber”), Swedish knöl (“tuber”), Danish knold (“hillock, clod, tuber”) and German Knolle (“bulb”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).