knout
French, noun/knut/
knout is spelled K-N-O-U-T (5 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 155,929th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Knout is a French masculine noun meaning “knout, scourge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Supplice du fouet en Russie tsariste”.
What does knout mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineknout, scourge
- 2
masculinea flogging administered with such a multiple whip; a condemnation to suffer it
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Supplice du fouet en Russie tsariste. 2. Fouet.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of knout
- knouts plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce knout?
- /knut/
- \knut\
- [knut]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to knout
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is knout in French?
knout appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).