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exhaust

ex·haust/ɪɡˈzɔst/verb, noun

exhaust is spelled E-X-H-A-U-S-T: 7 letters and 2 syllables (ex·haust). It appears 6.5 times per million words in written English, the 9,463rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, exhaust means “To draw or let out wholly; to drain completely” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in exhaust?

Letters7: E-X-H-A-U-S-T
Syllables2: ex·haust
In writing6.5 times per million words; the 9,463rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is exhaust?

Exhaust appears 6.5 times per million words in written English, the 9,463rd 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 exhaust?

  • UK /ɪɡˈzɔːst/
  • US /ɪɡˈzɔst/
  • US /ɪɡˈzɑst/

Exhaust has 2 syllables, split ex·haust in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-exhaust.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with exhaust?

5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as exhaust from its last stressed vowel (/ɔst/):

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 exhaust

  • exhausts present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • exhausting participle, present
  • exhausted participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does exhaust mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To draw or let out wholly; to drain completely.

    The water was exhausted out of the well.

  2. 2

    To empty by drawing or letting out the contents.

    to exhaust a well

  3. 3

    To use up; to deplete, drain or expend wholly, or use until the supply comes to an end.

    My grandfather seemingly never exhausts his supply of bad jokes.

  4. 4

    To tire out; to wear out; to cause to be without any energy.

    The marathon exhausted me.

  5. 5

    To discuss thoroughly or completely.

    That subject has already been exhausted.

  6. 6

    To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives.

    to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether

  7. 7

    To expel (as exhaust).

  8. 8

    To discharge or escape (as exhaust).

noun

  1. 1

    A system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see also exhaust system.

  2. 2

    The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.

  3. 3

    The dirty air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.

  4. 4

    An exhaust pipe, especially on a motor vehicle.

  5. 5

    Exhaust gas.

adjective

  1. 1

    obsoleteExhausted; used up.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Exhaust in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchépuiser (to draw or let out wholly; to drain off…), échappement (system consisting of the parts of an engine…), gaz d'échappement (exhaust gas)
Portugueseesvaziar (to draw or let out wholly; to drain off…), escapamento, escape (system consisting of the parts of an engine…), esgotar, exaurir (to empty by drawing or letting out the contents…)
GermanAuspuff (system consisting of the parts of an engine…), erschöpfen, dezimieren (to empty by drawing or letting out the contents…), Abgas (the steam let out of a cylinder after it has…), Abluft (the foul air let out of a room through a…)
Spanishgas de escape/exhaustación (exhaust gas), agotar (to empty by drawing or letting out the contents…), escape, exhaustación (the steam let out of a cylinder after it has…)

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 exhaust come from?

From Latin exhaustus, past participle of exhaurīre (“to draw out, drink up, empty, exhaust”), from ex (“out”) + haurīre (“to draw (especially water), drain”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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