# toast

> English word · Noun · IPA /təʊst/ · frequency rank #7,624

## Definitions
1. Bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning).
2. A proposed salutation (e.g. saying "cheers") while drinking alcohol.
3. A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem.
4. Something that is irreparably damaged or used up, especially when destroyed by heat or fire; something which has been burnt to a crisp or incinerated.
5. Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury.
6. A type of extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
7. An old toast ("a lively fellow who drinks excessively").
8. A transient, informational unclickable pop-up overlay, less interactive than a snackbar.
9. A piece of toast.

## Etymology
From Middle English tost, from the verb tosten (see below).
Sense 3 is according to the Oxford English Dictionary a figurative application of sense 1 dating to 1674. It began as an epithet for a lady being supposed to flavour a bumper like a spiced toast placed in that drink. (In this context, a bumper is a drinking vessel filled to the brim.)

## Easily confused with
- **TOS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toast-vs-tos)
- **tot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toast-vs-tot)
- **tons** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toast-vs-tons)
- **toys** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toast-vs-toys)
- **tops** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toast-vs-tops)
- **toes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toast-vs-toes)
- **toss** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toast-vs-toss)
- **twat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toast-vs-twat)
- **tout** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toast-vs-tout)
- **tort** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toast-vs-tort)
- **toot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toast-vs-toot)
- **tosh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toast-vs-tosh)
- **trust** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toast-vs-trust)
- **trash** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toast-vs-trash)
- **twist** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toast-vs-twist)
- **tract** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toast-vs-tract)
- **trait** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toast-vs-trait)
- **torso** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toast-vs-torso)
- **Topsy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toast-vs-topsy)
- **Trask** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toast-vs-trask)

## Common misspellings (7)
`otast`, `taost`, `toasst`, `toastt`, `toats`, `tosat`, `ttoast`

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