trout
/tɹaʊt/noun, verb
trout is spelled T-R-O-U-T: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 6.0 times per million words in written English, the 9,878th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, trout means “Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of trout is trouts.
How many letters and syllables are in trout?
| Letters | 5: T-R-O-U-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.0 times per million words; the 9,878th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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 trout?
Trout appears 6.0 times per million words in written English, the 9,878th 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 trout?
- /tɹaʊt/
- Canada /tɹʌʊt/
Trout 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-trout.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with trout?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as trout.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tutor.
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 trout
- trouts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- trouting participle, present
- trouted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does trout mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
Many anglers consider trout to be the archetypical quarry.
- 2
UKderogatoryAn objectionable elderly woman.
Look, you silly old trout, you can't keep bringing home cats! You can't afford the ones you have!
verb
- 1
To fish for trout.
- 2
To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Trout in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 trout come from?
From Middle English troute, troughte, trught, trouȝt, trouhte, partly from Old English truht (“trout”), and partly from Old French truite; both from Late Latin tructa, perhaps from Ancient Greek τρώκτης (trṓktēs, “nibbler”), from τρώγω (trṓgō, “to gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, to turn”). The Internet verb sense originated on BBSes of the 1980s, probably from Monty Python's The Fish-Slapping Dance (1972), though that sketch involved a halibut.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).