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piyyut

noun

piyyut is spelled P-I-Y-Y-U-T: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, piyyut means “A Jewish liturgical poem” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of piyyut is piyyuts or piyyutim.

How many letters and syllables are in piyyut?

Letters6: P-I-Y-Y-U-T
In writingabout once in every 91 million words; the 305,310th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is piyyut?

Piyyut appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th 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).

Forms of piyyut

  • piyyuts plural
  • piyyutim plural
  • piyut
  • piyyuṭs plural

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

What does piyyut mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A Jewish liturgical poem.

noun

as piyyuṭ
  1. 1

    Alternative form of piyyut.

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

Where does piyyut come from?

Borrowed from Hebrew פִּיּוּט (piyút). Doublet of poet.

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

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