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stout

/staʊt/adjective, noun, verb

stout is spelled S-T-O-U-T: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,005th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, stout means “Large; bulky” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in stout?

Letters5: S-T-O-U-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing2.8 times per million words; the 16,005th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is stout?

Stout appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,005th 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 stout?

  • /staʊt/
  • Canada /stʌʊt/

Stout 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-stout.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of stout

  • stouter comparative
  • stoutest superlative
  • stouts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • stouting participle, present
  • stouted participle, past

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

What does stout mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Large; bulky.

  2. 2

    obsoleteBold, strong-minded.

  3. 3

    obsoleteProud; haughty.

  4. 4

    Firm; resolute; dauntless.

  5. 5

    Materially strong, enduring.

    Campers prefer stout vessels, sticks and cloth.

  6. 6

    Obstinate.

  7. 7

    Irelanddrunk.

noun

  1. 1

    A dark and strong malt brew made with toasted grain.

    Stout is darker, stronger and sweeter than porter beer.

  2. 2

    A serving of this beer.

  3. 3

    An obese person.

  4. 4

    A large clothing size.

  5. 5

    Gnat.

  6. 6

    Gadfly.

  7. 7

    Firefly or miller (moth).

verb

  1. 1

    archaicTo be bold or defiant.

  2. 2

    To persist, endure.

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

Stout in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Germangroß, korpulent (large, bulky, corpulent), kräftig, kraftvoll (lusty, vigorous), stolz, hochmütig (proud, haughty)
Portuguesecorpulento (large, bulky, corpulent), vigoroso, robusto (lusty, vigorous), resistente (materially strong)
Spanishfornido (large, bulky, corpulent), altivo (proud, haughty)
Frenchstout (brew)

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 stout come from?

From Middle English stoute, from Old French estout (“brave, fierce, proud”) (Modern French dialectal stout (“proud”)), from earlier Old French estolt (“strong”), from Frankish *stolt, *stult (“bold, proud”), from Proto-Germanic *stultaz (“bold, proud”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, stand”).

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

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