outback

Other forms of outback

plural

outbacks·

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 outback

What does outback mean?

outback means "the bush country of the interior of Australia". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in outback?

outback has 2 syllables: out-back. The stress falls on "out". In IPA it is /ˈaʊtˌbæk/.

What is another word for outback?

Close synonyms include remote. 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 outback a common word?

outback is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with outback?

34 words rhyme with outback. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.