How to spell trout

hear ittrout/traʊt/nounLong vowels

What it means: A type of fish often found in freshwater.

In a sentence: The trout swam quickly in the clear, cold river.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as troute or troutt.

Same family: trout fishing, brown trout, rainbow trout, brook trout, river fish. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Trout” comes from Old English *truht*, which was borrowed from Latin *tructa*, a name for a kind of spotted fish. The word has been used in English for over a thousand years to describe these cold-water fish.

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