whiteout

Other forms of whiteout

plural

whiteouts·

past tense

whiteouted·

present participle

whiteouting·

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 whiteout

What does whiteout mean?

whiteout means "cover up with a liquid correction fluid". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whiteout?

whiteout has 3 syllables and divides as whi-te-out under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for whiteout?

Close synonyms include white out, white-out. 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 whiteout a common word?

whiteout 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.