breakout
noun, adjective
breakout is spelled B-R-E-A-K-O-U-T: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 3.1 times per million words in written English, the 15,146th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “break out vs breakout” about 30 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, breakout means “An escape from prison” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of breakout is breakouts.
How many letters and syllables are in breakout?
| Letters | 8: B-R-E-A-K-O-U-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.1 times per million words; the 15,146th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is breakout?
Breakout appears 3.1 times per million words in written English, the 15,146th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce breakout?
Breakout has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-breakout.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with breakout
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: break out (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with breakout?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as breakout.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: outbreak.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of breakout
- breakouts plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does breakout mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An escape from prison.
- 2
An escape from any restrictive or confining situation.
- 3
The point at which visibility returns after passing through clouds.
- 4
An outbreak (sudden eruption of disease etc.).
- 5
A breakdown of statistics; a detailed view of component parts.
- 6
A room in a hotel etc. that can be taken by a smaller group at a large conference.
- 7
A style of video game that involves moving a paddle to deflect a ball into a wall of bricks to eliminate them one by one.
adjective
- 1
Of a book, film, or other work: leading its author to sudden mainstream success.
- 2
Splitting a signal into several signals.
breakout box; breakout cable
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Breakout in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | fuga , libertação , explosão |
| Spanish | evasión, fuga, escape |
| French | casse-briques |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does breakout come from?
Deverbal from break out. The video game genre is named after Breakout, the first game of this kind, released in 1976 by Atari.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).