kraut
/kɹaʊt/
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Canada/kɹʌʊt/
kraut is the clipping of sauerkraut.
kraut is the alternative letter-case form of Kraut.
Meaning of sauerkraut
Noun
sauerkraut (countable and uncountable, plural sauerkrauts)
- A dish made by fermenting finely chopped cabbage.
- Synonyms:
- kraut, liberty cabbage
- A German person.
- Synonyms:
- Kraut
Verb
kraut (third-person singular simple present krauts, present participle krauting, simple past and past participle krauted)
- To make (into) sauerkraut.
- I find more money in krauting Cabbage myself and marketing the kraut, as […]1919, J. M. Smith, Muskogee Co., Okla., letter in Market Growers Journal, page 337
- The same applies to the brining of cucumbers […] and krauting cabbage.1961, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture, Perishable Agricultural Commodities: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing of the Committee on Agriculture, House of...
Noun capitalized: Kraut
Kraut (plural Krauts)
Synonyms of kraut
Forms of kraut
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | krauts |
| plural | Krauts |
| alternative form | kraut |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | krauts |
| present participle | krauting |
| past participle | krauted |
| past | krauted |
Origin of kraut
Clipping of sauerkraut, from German Sauerkraut. Compare German Kraut (“cabbage”).
From German Kraut (“cabbage”), alluding to the use of cabbage as an ingredient in German cuisine (namely sauerkraut). First use appears c. 1833–1837, but popularized during the First and Second World Wars.
Words formed from kraut
- krautfurter
- kraut juice
- krautish
- krautland
- kraut land
- krautrock
- Krautspeak
- Krautwagon
Phrases with kraut
Words that rhyme with kraut
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- set about
- shout
- sprout
- doubt
- umlaut
- fill out
- grout
- pout
- devout
- drought
- gout
- nowt
- redoubt
- throughout
- without
- ablaut
- dout
- flout
- lout
- mahout
- misdoubt
- mought
- prone out
- strout
- term out
- trout
- zoom out
- 'bout
- anlaut
- aspout
- asprout
- bluff out
- chout
- dought
- knout
- layabout
- ne'er cast a clout till May be out
- owt
- peter out
- regrout
- sout
- when in doubt, do nowt
Questions about kraut
- What does kraut mean?
- Kraut means to make (into) sauerkraut.
- What is kraut the clipping of?
- Kraut is the clipping of sauerkraut.
- What part of speech is kraut?
- Kraut can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce kraut?
- Kraut is pronounced /kɹaʊt/.
- What is the past tense of kraut?
- The past tense of kraut is krauted.
Words near kraut in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: kraut (page history and authors); Kraut (page history and authors); sauerkraut (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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