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fadeout

noun

fadeout is a noun meaning “A gradual disappearance or fading away” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-D-E-O-U-T, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fadeout is fadeouts.

What does fadeout mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A gradual disappearance or fading away.

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

Forms of fadeout

  • fadeouts plural
  • fade-out

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

How common is fadeout?

Fadeout appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th 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).

Where does fadeout come from?

Deverbal from fade out.

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