poultry
/ˈpoʊltɹi/noun
poultry is spelled P-O-U-L-T-R-Y: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, poultry means “Domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese) raised for food (meat, eggs, or both)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of poultry is poultries.
How many letters and syllables are in poultry?
| Letters | 7: P-O-U-L-T-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.5 times per million words; the 14,106th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like |
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).
How common is poultry?
Poultry appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th 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 poultry?
- UK /ˈpɒltɹi/
- UK /ˈpəʊltɹi/
- US /ˈpoʊltɹi/
Poultry has 2 syllables (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-poultry.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with poultry
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: paltry (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of poultry
- poultries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does poultry mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese) raised for food (meat, eggs, or both).
a poultry farmer
- 2
The meat from a domestic fowl.
the poultry counter
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate poultry?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of poultry: pltry..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Poultry in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | volaille, volailles, basse-cour |
| German | Geflügel |
| Portuguese | ave doméstica, ave de capoeira, ave de corte , carne de ave |
| Spanish | ave de corral , carne aviar/aviaria/aviana |
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 poultry come from?
From Middle English pultrie, from Old French pouleterie, from poulet, diminutive of poule (“hen”), from Latin pullus (“chick”). By surface analysis, poult + -ry. For the development of Middle English /u/ to modern /oʊ/, /əʊ/ before /lt/, /ld/, /ln/, compare boult, boulder, colter/coulter, poultice, shoulder, won't.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).