outcaste

Other forms of outcaste

plural

outcastes·

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 outcaste

What does outcaste mean?

outcaste means "a person belonging to no caste". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in outcaste?

outcaste has 2 syllables: out-caste. The stress falls on "out".

What is another word for outcaste?

Close synonyms include casteless. 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 outcaste a common word?

outcaste is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.