# throat

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈθɹəʊt/ · frequency rank #4,339

## Definitions
1. The front part of the neck.
2. The gullet or windpipe.
3. A narrow opening in a vessel.
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.
9. The inside of a timber knee.
10. The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.

## Etymology
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.

## Easily confused with
- **trot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throat-vs-trot)
- **throw** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throat-vs-throw)
- **treat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throat-vs-treat)
- **trout** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throat-vs-trout)
- **throb** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throat-vs-throb)
- **thrown** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throat-vs-thrown)
- **throne** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throat-vs-throne)
- **throws** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throat-vs-throws)
- **thrust** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throat-vs-thrust)
- **throng** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throat-vs-throng)
- **throes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throat-vs-throes)
- **throated** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throat-vs-throated)
- **that** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/that-vs-throat)
- **thot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thot-vs-throat)
- **tarot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tarot-vs-throat)
- **threat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/threat-vs-throat)
- **thread** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thread-vs-throat)
- **thrift** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thrift-vs-throat)
- **threats** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/threats-vs-throat)

## Common misspellings (9)
`htroat`, `thhroat`, `thorat`, `thraot`, `throatt`, `throta`, `thrroat`, `trhoat`, `tthroat`

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