outlay

Other forms of outlay

plural

outlays·

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 outlay

What does outlay mean?

outlay means "the act of spending or disbursing money". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in outlay?

outlay has 2 syllables: out-lay. The stress falls on "out". In IPA it is /ˈaʊtˌleɪ/.

What is another word for outlay?

Close synonyms include spending, disbursement, disbursal, outgo, spending. 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 outlay a common word?

outlay 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 outlay?

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