outing

Other forms of outing

plural

outings·

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 outing

What does outing mean?

outing means "a journey taken for pleasure". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in outing?

outing has 2 syllables: ou-ting. The stress falls on "ou". In IPA it is /ˈaʊtɪŋ/.

What is another word for outing?

Close synonyms include excursion, jaunt, junket, pleasure trip, expedition. 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 outing a common word?

outing is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.