outmoded

adjective, verb

outmoded is spelled O-U-T-M-O-D-E-D: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 49,949th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, outmoded means “Unfashionable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in outmoded?

Letters	8: O-U-T-M-O-D-E-D
Syllables	3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	about once in every 3 million words; the 49,949th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

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).

How common is outmoded?

Outmoded appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 49,949th most frequent word form in the list.

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce outmoded?

Outmoded has 3 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)-Wodencafe-outmoded.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of outmoded

more outmoded comparative
most outmoded superlative

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

What does outmoded mean?

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

adjective

1
Unfashionable.
His pipe was as outmoded as his ideas.
2
Obsolete.
His outmoded word processor was a heap of junk.

verb

1
simple past and past participle of outmode (a form of outmode)