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toot

/ˈtut/noun, verb

toot is spelled T-O-O-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,820th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, toot means “The noise of a horn or whistle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of toot is toots.

How many letters and syllables are in toot?

Letters4: T-O-O-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.1 times per million words; the 27,820th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
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 toot?

Toot appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,820th 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 toot?

  • UK /ˈtuːt/
  • US /ˈtut/
  • /ˈtʊt/

As a noun (“A toilet”): /ˈtʊt/.

Toot 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-toot.ogg, En-au-toot.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with toot?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as toot from its last stressed vowel (/ut/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: otto.

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 toot

  • toots plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • tooting participle, present
  • tooted participle, past

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

What does toot mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The noise of a horn or whistle.

    He gave a little toot of the horn, to get their attention.

  2. 2

    informalA fart; flatus.

  3. 3

    slangCocaine.

  4. 4

    slangA portion of cocaine that a person snorts.

  5. 5

    informalA spree of drunkenness.

  6. 6

    informalRubbish; tat.

    I'm not paying fifty pounds for this load of old toot!

  7. 7

    A message on the social networking software Mastodon.

  8. 8

    AustraliaslangA toilet.

  9. 9

    ScotlandA small child; alternative form of tot

verb

  1. 1

    To stand out, or be prominent.

  2. 2

    To peep; to look narrowly.

  3. 3

    To see; to spy.

  4. 4

    To produce the noise of a horn or whistle.

  5. 5

    To cause a horn or whistle to produce a noise.

  6. 6

    slangTo flatulate.

  7. 7

    Of a queen bee, to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.

  8. 8

    slangTo go on a drinking binge.

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

Toot in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpouët, pouet (noise of a horn or whistle)
Portugueseapito (noise of a horn or whistle), toot (Mastodon post), buzinar (to make the sound of a horn), tootar (to post to Mastodon)
Spanishsilbato (noise of a horn or whistle), tocar, [hacer] sonar, tañer (to cause a horn or whistle to produce a noise)
GermanTröt, Toot (Mastodon post), tröten (to make the sound of a horn)

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 toot come from?

Probably onomatopoeic in origin. Compare Dutch toeteren (“to blow a horn”), German tuten, Swedish tuta, Danish tude. Noun etymology 1, noun sense 7 ("Mastodon post") and verb etymology 1, verb sense 10 ("to post on Mastodon") are influenced by tweet (“Twitter post”).

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

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