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outstation

noun, adjective, adverb

outstation is spelled O-U-T-S-T-A-T-I-O-N: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, outstation means “A station or post in a remote position; an outpost” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of outstation is outstations.

How many letters and syllables are in outstation?

Letters10: O-U-T-S-T-A-T-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 11 million words; the 100,430th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 outstation?

Outstation appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th 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 outstation?

  • General-American

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-outstation.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of outstation

  • outstations plural

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

What does outstation mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A station or post in a remote position; an outpost.

adjective

  1. 1

    IndiaOut of town.

adverb

  1. 1

    IndiaOut of town.

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

Where does outstation come from?

From out- + station.

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

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