gout

1. 1.

   a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints

   Synonymsgouty arthritisurarthritis

   Broaderarthritis

Other forms of gout

plural

gouts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gout

What does gout mean?

gout means "a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints".

How many syllables are in gout?

gout has 1 syllable: gout. In IPA it is /ˈɡaʊt/.

What is another word for gout?

Close synonyms include gouty arthritis, urarthritis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gout a common word?

gout is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with gout?

1 word rhymes with gout. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.