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shout

/ʃaʊt/noun, verb

shout is spelled S-H-O-U-T: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,456th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, shout means “A loud burst of voice or voices; a violent and sudden outcry, especially that of a multitude expressing joy, triumph, exultation, anger, or great…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of shout is shouts.

How many letters and syllables are in shout?

Letters5: S-H-O-U-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing11 times per million words; the 6,456th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is shout?

Shout appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,456th 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 shout?

  • /ʃaʊt/
  • Canada /ʃʌʊt/
  • /ʃuːt/

Shout 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-shout.ogg, En-au-shout.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with shout?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: south.

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 shout

  • shouts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • shouting participle, present
  • shouted participle, past

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

What does shout mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A loud burst of voice or voices; a violent and sudden outcry, especially that of a multitude expressing joy, triumph, exultation, anger, or great effort.

    give out a shout

  2. 2

    AustraliaUKslangA round of drinks in a pub; the turn to pay the shot or scot; an act of paying for a round of drinks.

  3. 3

    AustraliaUKslangA call-out for an emergency services team.

  4. 4

    informalA greeting, name-check or other mention, for example on a radio or TV program.

    Next up the new single from Beyoncé, but first a shout to Barry Bloggins and his wife Belinda...

  5. 5

    informalA suggestion; an idea.

  6. 6

    UKA flat-bottomed boat, a barge (for carrying cargo, etc), now especially a light boat used in duck-shooting.

verb

  1. 1

    To utter a sudden and loud cry, as in joy, triumph, exultation or anger, or to attract attention, to animate others, etc.

    Mom shouted to us to come sit at the table.

  2. 2

    To utter with a shout; to cry; to shout out

    They shouted his name to get his attention.

  3. 3

    To forcefully attract attention or proclaim one’s presence.

  4. 4

    AustraliaslangTo pay for food, drink or entertainment for others.

  5. 5

    To post a text message (for example, email) in upper case, regarded as the electronic messaging equivalent of oral shouting.

    Please don't shout in the chat room.

  6. 6

    obsoleteTo treat with shouts or clamor.

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

Shout in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcri (a loud burst of voice), crier (to utter a sudden and loud outcry)
GermanSchrei (a loud burst of voice), rufen, schreien (to utter a sudden and loud outcry), anschreien (to treat with shouts or clamor), spendieren (to buy food or drinks for others)
Portuguesegrito (a loud burst of voice), gritar (to utter a sudden and loud outcry)
Spanishgrito, vociferación, gritoneo, voceo (a loud burst of voice), gritar, desgañitarse (to utter a sudden and loud outcry)

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 shout come from?

From Middle English shouten. Further origin uncertain. Possibly related to Middle English shooten (“to shoot (out)”) or from or akin to Old Norse skúta (“to chide, scold”), Old Norse skúti, skúta (“a taunt”). See also the second, rare sense of the verb scout (“to reject with contempt”).

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

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