flameout
noun
flameout is a noun meaning “The act of flaming out or burning out; extinguishing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-M-E-O-U-T, and it appears about once in every 24 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flameout is flameouts.
What does flameout mean?
noun
- 1
The act of flaming out or burning out; extinguishing.
- 2
The act of quitting or failing, especially due to overwork or in a dramatic manner.
The company was one of Silicon Valley's more famous dot-com flameouts.
- 3
The sudden extinguishing of the flame of a burner (due to obstruction of fuel or airflow).
The left engine suffered a flameout from ingesting heavy rain.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flameout?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-flameout.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of flameout
- flameouts plural
- flame-out
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flameout?
Flameout appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st 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 flameout come from?
Deverbal from flame out.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).