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outlook

/ˈaʊtˌlʊk/noun

outlook is spelled O-U-T-L-O-O-K: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,347th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, outlook means “A place from which something can be viewed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of outlook is outlooks.

How many letters and syllables are in outlook?

Letters7: O-U-T-L-O-O-K
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing12 times per million words; the 6,347th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is outlook?

Outlook appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,347th 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 outlook?

  • US /ˈaʊtˌlʊk/
  • British /ˈawtˌlɵk/
  • Australia /ˈæɔtˌlʊk/

Outlook 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: En-us-outlook.ogg, En-us-outlook.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with outlook?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as outlook (/aʊtlʊk/).

Spelled with the same letters in another order: lookout.

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 outlook

  • outlooks plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • outlooking participle, present
  • outlooked participle, past

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

What does outlook mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A place from which something can be viewed.

    Perched on the edge of the cliff was a hidden outlook.

  2. 2

    The view from such a place.

  3. 3

    An attitude or point of view.

    He has a positive outlook on life.

  4. 4

    Expectation for the future.

    The outlook for temperature rises is worrying.

  5. 5

    colloquiallook; appearance

verb

  1. 1

    archaicTo face or look in an outward direction.

  2. 2

    archaicTo look at (someone) so long or intently that they look away; to win or prevail over (someone or something).

  3. 3

    obsoleteTo be more attractive than (someone or something).

  4. 4

    obsoleteTo inspect throughly; to select.

  5. 5

    obsoleteTo look beyond (something).

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

Outlook in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanAussichtspunkt (place from which something can be viewed), Aussicht, Ausblick (view from such a place), Einstellung, Ansichten (attitude, point of view)
Portugueseperspectiva (place from which something can be viewed), ponto de vista (attitude, point of view)
Frenchvue (view from such a place), point de vue (attitude, point of view), perspective (expectation for the future)
Spanishparecer (attitude, point of view)

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 outlook come from?

From out- + look.

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

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