moot
/muːt/adjective, noun, verb
moot is spelled M-O-O-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,516th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “moot vs mute” about 320 times a month (Google, United States). As an adjective, moot means “Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in moot?
| Letters | 4: M-O-O-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.7 times per million words; the 21,516th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people 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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is moot?
Moot appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,516th 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 moot?
- /muːt/
As a noun (“The vagina”): /ˈmʊt/.
Moot 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-moot.ogg, En-au-moot.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with moot
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with moot?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as moot.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: moto, tomo, toom.
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 moot
- more moot comparative
- most moot superlative
- moots plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- mooting participle, present
- mooted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does moot mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
rareSubject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
[…] :indeed we were obligd to hawl off rather in a hurry for the wind freshning a little we found ourselves in a bay which it was a moot point whether or not we could get out of: […]
- 2
CanadaUSBeing an exercise of thought; academic.
- 3
CanadaUSHaving no practical consequence or relevance.
That point may make for a good discussion, but it is moot.
noun
- 1
A moot court.
- 2
A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
- 3
A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting two weeks.
- 4
A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
- 5
An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
- 6
A ring for gauging wooden pins.
- 7
ScotlandA whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
- 8
ScotlandTalk.
- 9
AustraliaThe vagina.
- 10
The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
- 11
A mutual follower on a social media platform.
Eid Mubarak to all my muslim moots out there
verb
- 1
To bring up as a subject for debate.
- 2
To discuss or debate.
- 3
USTo make or declare irrelevant.
- 4
To argue or plead in a supposed case.
- 5
obsoleteTo talk or speak.
- 6
ScotlandTo say, utter, also insinuate.
- 7
To take root and begin to grow.
- 8
To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with a snout.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Moot in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | discutable , non pertinent, stérile, vain |
| German | fraglich, strittig, umstritten , irrelevant, müßig, rein akademisch |
| Portuguese | discutível , irrelevante , propor, tencionar, pleitear |
| Spanish | por gusto, por las puras, por las huevas, por las puras huevas, por las puras brevas, baldío |
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 moot come from?
From Middle English mōt, ȝemōt, from Old English *mōt, ġemōt (“meeting”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtą, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to encounter, come”). Cognate with Scots mut, mote (“meeting, assembly”), Low German Mööt (“meeting”), Moot (“meeting”), archaic Dutch (ge)moet (“meeting”), Danish møde (“meeting”), Swedish möte (“meeting”), Norwegian møte (“meeting”), Icelandic mót (“meeting, tournament, meet”). Related to meet. The adjective derives from the noun.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).