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say it: loot
lute is a noun meaning "a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid". It is pronounced /ˈlut/ — loot. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid
chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lute come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.