Skip to main content
PlainSpell

spout

/spaʊt/noun, verb

spout is spelled S-P-O-U-T: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,070th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, spout means “A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of spout is spouts.

How many letters and syllables are in spout?

Letters5: S-P-O-U-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.3 times per million words; the 25,070th 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 spout?

Spout appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,070th 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 spout?

  • /spaʊt/
  • Canada /spʌʊt/

Spout 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-au-spout.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with spout?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: stoup.

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 spout

  • spouts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • spouting participle, present
  • spouted participle, past

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

What does spout mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.

    I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.

  2. 2

    A waterspout (“channel through which water is discharged, especially from the gutters of a roof”).

  3. 3

    A stream or discharge of liquid, typically with some degree of force.

  4. 4

    A stream of water that falls from higher to lower; a (typically thin) waterfall.

  5. 5

    A similar stream or fall of earth, rock, etc.

    From the side of the hill … a spout of gravel was dislodged.'

  6. 6

    A waterspout (“whirlwind or tornado that forms over water”).

  7. 7

    The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.

  8. 8

    AustraliaA hollow stump formed when a tree branch breaks off.

verb

  1. 1

    To gush forth in a jet or stream

    Water spouts from a hole.

  2. 2

    To eject water or liquid in a jet.

    The whale spouted.

  3. 3

    To speak tediously or pompously.

  4. 4

    To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.

  5. 5

    datedslangTo pawn; to pledge.

    to spout a watch

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

Spout in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchbec verseur (a tube through which liquid is poured or…), jet (a stream of liquid), souffle (the mixture of air and water thrown up from the…), jaillir (to gush forth in a stream), palabrer (to speak tediously and at length)
GermanTülle, Ausguss, Schnabel, Auslauf, Schnaupe, Schnauze (a tube through which liquid is poured or…)
Portuguesebico, bica, biqueira (a tube through which liquid is poured or…), jorro (a stream of liquid), borrifo (the mixture of air and water thrown up from the…), jorrar (to gush forth in a stream)
Spanishpico, pitorro, boquilla (a tube through which liquid is poured or…), chorro (a stream of liquid), chorrear (to gush forth in a stream), perorar (to speak tediously and at length)

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 spout come from?

From Middle English spouten, from Middle Dutch spoiten, spouten (> Dutch spuiten (“to spout”)), from Old Dutch *spūten, *spīuten, *spīwetten, from Proto-West Germanic *spīwattjan, from Proto-Germanic *spīwatjaną. Compare Swedish spruta (“squirt, syringe”). See also spit, spew.

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

What to look up after spout