Silouette or silhouette?
Did you mean silhouette? Here's the right spelling and how to remember it.
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Correct spelling: silhouette. Misspelling: silouette.
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Memory tip
Sil + hou + ette: a silent H and a double T.
Why people write “silouette”
The misspelling “silouette” is only one letter off: it leaves out the H.
Spell-checkers catch the mistake in a document, but not in a handwritten note, a text message or a word game. Writing the word out a few times while saying the tricky part aloud is the quickest way to make silhouette automatic.
Other misspellings of “silhouette”
People also write “silhouete” and “silhoutte”. Here is where each one goes wrong.
“silhouete”
Correct spelling: silhouette. Misspelling: silhouete.
letters the misspelling gets wrong or leaves out letters that shouldn't be there
The misspelling “silhouete” is only one letter off: it uses a single T where silhouette has a double TT.
“silhoutte”
Correct spelling: silhouette. Misspelling: silhoutte.
letters the misspelling gets wrong or leaves out letters that shouldn't be there
The misspelling “silhoutte” is only one letter off: it leaves out the E.
What does “silhouette” mean?
silhouette noun
- an outline of a solid object (as cast by its shadow)
- a drawing of the outline of an object; filled in with some uniform color
silhouette verb
- project on a background, such as a screen, like a silhouette
- represent by a silhouette
Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Full dictionary entry
“Silhouette” in a sentence
- We saw his silhouette in the window.
Is “silhouette” a playable word?
13 points in Scrabble · 14 in Words With Friends
- Scrabble (US)
- Scrabble (UK)
- Words With Friends
“silouette” is not accepted in any of these games. See every word you can make from SILHOUETTE.