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tote

/toʊt/noun, verb

tote is spelled T-O-T-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,356th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tote means “A tote bag” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tote is totes.

How many letters and syllables are in tote?

Letters4: T-O-T-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.9 times per million words; the 20,356th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 tote?

Tote appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,356th 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 tote?

  • UK /təʊt/
  • US /toʊt/

Tote 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-tote.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with tote?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as tote 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 tote

  • totes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • toting participle, present
  • toted participle, past
  • tot

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

What does tote mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A tote bag.

  2. 2

    A heavy burden.

  3. 3

    A kind of plastic box used for transporting goods.

  4. 4

    The principal handle of a handplane, for gripping the plane.

    Coordinate term: knob

  5. 5

    AustraliaUKA pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator.

  6. 6

    AustraliaUKPari-mutuel betting.

verb

  1. 1

    To carry or bear.

  2. 2

    To add up; to calculate a total.

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

Tote in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchtote bag (tote bag – see also tote bag)
GermanTragetasche, Einkaufstasche (tote bag – see also tote bag), Last (heavy burden), tragen (carry or bear), zusammenzählen, summieren (add up)
Portuguesesacola (tote bag – see also tote bag), carga pesada (heavy burden), carregar (carry or bear)
Spanishsumar (add up), caja plástica (plastic box)

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 tote come from?

Possibly from Middle Low German tûte, tǖte (“horn, conical paper bag”), whence also German Tute (“horn, bugle”) and German Tüte (“bag, paper bag”). Compare also Scots tout (“drinking vessel”), Saterland Frisian Tüütje (“paper bag”), West Frisian tút (“spout, toot, kiss”), Dutch tuit (“horn, spout, nozzle”), Danish tud (“spout, nozzle”), Faroese strútur (“spout”), Icelandic stútur (“spout”), Norwegian and Swedish tut (“spout”), Old Norse tútna (“to be blown up”). Possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tut(t)- (“to stick out, protrude”).

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

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