snout

Other forms of snout

plural

snouts·

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 snout

What does snout mean?

snout means "a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in snout?

snout has 1 syllable: snout. In IPA it is /ˈsnaʊt/.

What is another word for snout?

Close synonyms include neb, beak, honker, hooter, nozzle. 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 snout a common word?

snout 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.