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natto

noun

natto is spelled N-A-T-T-O: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, natto means “A traditional Japanese food product made from fermented soybeans” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in natto?

Letters5: N-A-T-T-O
In writingabout once in every 14 million words; the 114,361st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 natto?

Natto appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st 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).

What rhymes with natto?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as natto.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: tanto.

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 natto

  • nattō

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

What does natto mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A traditional Japanese food product made from fermented soybeans.

noun

as nattō
  1. 1

    Alternative form of natto.

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

Natto in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Japanese food product:

LanguageWords
Frenchnattō
GermanNatto
Portuguesenatto
Spanishnatto

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 natto come from?

From Japanese 納豆 (nattō).

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

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