outlet

Other forms of outlet

plural

outlets·

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 outlet

What does outlet mean?

outlet means "a place of business for retailing goods". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in outlet?

outlet has 2 syllables: out-let. The stress falls on "out". In IPA it is /ˈaʊtˌlɛt/.

What is another word for outlet?

Close synonyms include mercantile establishment, retail store, sales outlet, wall socket, wall plug. 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 outlet a common word?

outlet 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.

What rhymes with outlet?

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