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output

/ˈaʊtpʊt/noun, verb

output is spelled O-U-T-P-U-T. The wrong spelling people search most is ouput: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 179 of all searches for the word. Output is a noun meaning “Production; quantity produced, created, or completed”. The plural of output is outputs.

How many letters and syllables are in output?

Letters6: O-U-T-P-U-T
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing27 times per million words; the 3,422nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, ouput, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them)
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell output?

Output is spelled O-U-T-P-U-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 179 of the searches for output in either form.

outputthe right spelling1,780 searches a month
ouputa missing t10 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is output?

Output appears 27 times per million words in written English, the 3,422nd 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 output?

  • US /ˈaʊtpʊt/
  • British /ˈawtpɵt/
  • Australia /ˈæɔtpʊt/

Output 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-output.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with output?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as output (/aʊtpʊt/).

Spelled with the same letters in another order: putout.

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 output

  • outputs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • outputting participle, present
  • outputted participle, past

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

What does output mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.

    The factory increased its output this year.

  2. 2

    Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer, or data sent from one program on the computer to another.

    a six-page output; six pages of output

  3. 3

    The flow rate of body liquids such as blood and urine.

  4. 4

    The amount of power produced by a particular system.

  5. 5

    The terminal through which the data or power is delivered from the source, output terminal.

verb

  1. 1

    To produce, create, or complete.

    We output 1400 units last year.

  2. 2

    To send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer, or to send data from one program on the computer to another.

    When I hit enter, it outputs a bunch of numbers.

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

Output in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanOutput (production; quantity produced, created, or…), Ausgabe (data sent out of the computer), ausgeben (produce or create)
Portugueseprodução (production; quantity produced, created, or…), saída (de dados/informação) (data sent out of the computer)
Spanishproducción, output (production; quantity produced, created, or…), salida, egresión (disused), egreso (data sent out of the computer), producir (produce or create)
Frenchsortie (data sent out of the computer), produire (produce or create), exporter (send data to out of a computer)

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 output come from?

From out + (verb) put; nominalisation of put out.

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

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