smolt
/smoʊlt/noun
smolt is a noun meaning “A young salmon two or three years old, when it has acquired its silvery color” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-M-O-L-T, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of smolt is smolts.
What does smolt mean?
noun
- 1
A young salmon two or three years old, when it has acquired its silvery color.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce smolt?
- UK /smɒlt/
- UK /sməʊlt/
- US /smoʊlt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-smolt.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of smolt
- smolts plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is smolt?
Smolt appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th 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).
Where does smolt come from?
Probably an alteration of smelt, due to smolt (“smooth”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).