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say it: tawt
taut is an adjective meaning "pulled or drawn tight". It is pronounced /ˈtɔt/ — tawt. It carries 2 recorded senses.
subjected to great tension; stretched tight
“the skin of his face looked drawn and tight”
“her nerves were taut as the strings of a bow”
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 taut 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.