outstrip

Other forms of outstrip

past tense or participle

outstripped

present participle

outstripping

third person

outstrips·

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 outstrip

What does outstrip mean?

outstrip 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 outstrip?

outstrip has 2 syllables: out-strip. The stress falls on "strip". In IPA it is /aʊtˈstɹɪp/.

What is another word for outstrip?

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

outstrip 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 outstrip?

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