# snout

> English word · Noun · IPA /snaʊt/ · frequency rank #26,255

## Definitions
1. The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
2. The front of the prow of a ship or boat.
3. A person's nose.
4. The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
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. Tobacco; cigarettes.
8. The terminus of a glacier.
9. A police informer.
10. A butterfly in the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae, notable for the snout-like elongation on their heads.

## Etymology
From Middle English snowte, snout, snute, from Old English *snūt, 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.

## Easily confused with
- **sou** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/snout-vs-sou)
- **sot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/snout-vs-sot)
- **sort** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/snout-vs-sort)
- **spot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/snout-vs-spot)
- **soul** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/snout-vs-soul)
- **soft** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/snout-vs-soft)
- **snow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/snout-vs-snow)
- **soup** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/snout-vs-soup)
- **sour** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/snout-vs-sour)
- **sous** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/snout-vs-sous)
- **snug** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/snout-vs-snug)
- **soot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/snout-vs-soot)
- **snub** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/snout-vs-snub)
- **swot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/snout-vs-swot)
- **south** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/snout-vs-south)
- **sport** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/snout-vs-sport)
- **snowy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/snout-vs-snowy)
- **stout** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/snout-vs-stout)
- **strut** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/snout-vs-strut)
- **spout** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/snout-vs-spout)

## Common misspellings (7)
`nsout`, `snnout`, `snotu`, `snoutt`, `snuot`, `sonut`, `ssnout`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/snout