outgrowth

Other forms of outgrowth

plural

outgrowths·

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 outgrowth

What does outgrowth mean?

outgrowth means "a natural consequence of development". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in outgrowth?

outgrowth has 2 syllables: out-growth. The stress falls on "out". In IPA it is /ˈaʊtˌɡɹoʊθ/.

What is another word for outgrowth?

Close synonyms include branch, offshoot, offset, emergence, growth. 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 outgrowth a common word?

outgrowth 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.

What rhymes with outgrowth?

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