outskirts
out·skirts/ˈaʊtskɝts/noun, verb
outskirts is spelled O-U-T-S-K-I-R-T-S: 9 letters and 2 syllables (out·skirts). It appears 3.6 times per million words in written English, the 13,695th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, outskirts means “The area surrounding a city or town; suburb” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in outskirts?
| Letters | 9: O-U-T-S-K-I-R-T-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: out·skirts |
| In writing | 3.6 times per million words; the 13,695th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is outskirts?
Outskirts appears 3.6 times per million words in written English, the 13,695th 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 outskirts?
- US /ˈaʊtskɝts/
- UK /ˈaʊtskɜːts/
Outskirts has 2 syllables, split out·skirts in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-outskirts.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of outskirts
- outskirt singular
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does outskirts mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The area surrounding a city or town; suburb.
He lived on the outskirts of Paris for a time.
- 2
plural of outskirt
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of outskirt
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Outskirts in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the edges or areas around a city or town:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | banlieue |
| German | Stadtrand |
| Portuguese | periferia, arrabalde, subúrbio, arredores |
| Spanish | afueras, alrededores, extrarradio, arrabal, periferia, aledaño |
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 outskirts come from?
From out- + skirts.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).