knout
\knut\
The verdict
“knout” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Supplice du fouet en Russie tsariste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-knout · knout · French
knout · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "K" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | knout |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \knut\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « knout » en français
Rare enough to double-check
knout is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \knut\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for knout in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is knout, spelled K-N-O-U-T.
Definition
- 1Supplice du fouet en Russie tsariste.
- 2Fouet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how knout appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le supplice du knout.
Donner le knout.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.