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tut

/tʌt/interjection, verb, noun

tut is spelled T-U-T: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,168th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an interjection, tut means “Tut tut; an expression of disapproval” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in tut?

Letters3: T-U-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 31,168th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is tut?

Tut appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,168th 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 tut?

  • /tʌt/
  • [ǀ]
  • /tʊt/

As a noun (“A tutorial”): /t(j)uːt/.

As a noun (“A hassock”): /tʌt/.

As a noun (“Rubbish”): /tʊt/, /tʌt/.

Tut 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-uk-tsk.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of tut

  • tuts present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • tutting participle, present
  • tutted participle, past

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

What does tut mean?

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

interjection

  1. 1

    Tut tut; an expression of disapproval.

  2. 2

    Hush; be silent.

verb

  1. 1

    To make a tut tut sound of disapproval.

  2. 2

    To dance in the style known as tutting.

  3. 3

    obsoleteTo work by the piece; to carry out tut-work.

noun

  1. 1

    A tutorial.

  2. 2

    Rubbish.

  3. 3

    UKobsoleteA hassock.

  4. 4

    obsoleteA piece of work.

noun

as TUT
  1. 1

    Initialism of time under tension.

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

Where does tut come from?

Imitative.

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

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