snout
/snaʊt/noun, verb
snout is spelled S-N-O-U-T: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,092nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, snout means “The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of snout is snouts.
How many letters and syllables are in snout?
| Letters | 5: S-N-O-U-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.2 times per million words; the 26,092nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 snout?
Snout appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,092nd 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 snout?
- /snaʊt/
- Canada /snʌʊt/
Snout 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-snout.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with snout?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as snout.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: nutso, tonus.
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 snout
- snouts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- snouting participle, present
- snouted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does snout mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout.
- 2
The front of the prow of a ship or boat.
- 3
derogatoryA person's nose.
His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout.
- 4
The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
If you place the snout right into the bucket, it won't spray as much.
- 5
The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.
- 6
The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.
- 7
UKslangTobacco; cigarettes.
- 8
The terminus of a glacier.
verb
- 1
To furnish with a nozzle or point.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Snout in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | museau, groin , indic |
| German | Schnauze, Hundeschnauze, Rüssel, Schweinerüssel |
| Portuguese | focinho |
| Spanish | hocico , narizota, narices , boquilla , trompa |
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 snout come from?
From Middle English snowte, snout, snute, from Old English *snūt, *snūte or Middle Low German snûte, from Proto-West Germanic *snūt, from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz. Compare Saterland Frisian Snuute (“snout”), West Frisian snút (“snout”), Dutch snuit or snoet (“snout; cute face”), German Low German Snuut (“snout”), German Schnauze, Schnute (“snout”). Doublet of snoot.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).