throat
/ˈθɹoʊt/noun, verb
throat is spelled T-H-R-O-A-T: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 20 times per million words in written English, the 4,302nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, throat means “The front part of the neck” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of throat is throats.
How many letters and syllables are in throat?
| Letters | 6: T-H-R-O-A-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 20 times per million words; the 4,302nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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 throat?
Throat appears 20 times per million words in written English, the 4,302nd 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 throat?
- UK /ˈθɹəʊt/
- US /ˈθɹoʊt/
Throat 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-throat.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with throat?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as throat from its last stressed vowel (/oʊt/):
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 throat
- throats plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- throating participle, present
- throated participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does throat mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The front part of the neck.
The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.
- 2
The gullet or windpipe.
As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.
- 3
A narrow opening in a vessel.
The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.
- 4
Short for station throat
- 5
The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
- 6
The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
- 7
That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
- 8
The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
verb
- 1
To utter in or with the throat.
to throat threats
- 2
informalTo take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
- 3
UKobsoleteTo mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Throat in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | gorge , goulot |
| German | Kehle , Hals, Flaschenhals , Rachen |
| Portuguese | garganta , gargalo |
| Spanish | garganta, gorja , cuello , tráquea |
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 throat come from?
From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrotu, from Proto-Germanic *þrutō (“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *trud- (“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot (“throat”), German Drossel (“throttle, gorge of game (wild animals)”), Faroese troti (“swelling”), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Norwegian trut (“mouth”), Swedish trut.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).