washout

Other forms of washout

plural

washouts·

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 washout

What does washout mean?

washout means "the channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in washout?

washout has 2 syllables: wa-shout. The stress falls on "wa". In IPA it is /ˈwɑˌʃaʊt/.

What is another word for washout?

Close synonyms include wash, flop, dud. 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 washout a common word?

washout 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 washout?

1 word rhymes with washout. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.