outdo

Other forms of outdo

past tense or participle

outdid

past tense or participle

outdone

present participle

outdoing·

third person

outdoes·

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 outdo

What does outdo mean?

outdo means "be or do something to a greater degree". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in outdo?

outdo has 2 syllables: out-do. The stress falls on "do". In IPA it is /ˌaʊtˈdu/.

What is another word for outdo?

Close synonyms include surpass, outstrip, outmatch, outgo, exceed. 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 outdo a common word?

outdo 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 outdo?

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