knut
Spanish, noun/ˈɡnut/
knut is spelled K-N-U-T (4 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish, the 87,581st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Knut is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “knout (kind of whip)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Látigo de cuero trenzado que se empleaba en la Rusia imperial como pena para los criminales”.
What does knut mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineknout (kind of whip)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Látigo de cuero trenzado que se empleaba en la Rusia imperial como pena para los criminales.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of knut
- knuts plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce knut?
- /ˈɡnut/
- [ˈɡnut̪]
- [ˈknut̪]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to knut
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is knut in Spanish?
knut appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).