Skip to main content
PlainSpell

outta

UK [ˈaʊtə]preposition

outta is spelled O-U-T-T-A: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 6,047th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a preposition, outta means “Out of” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in outta?

Letters5: O-U-T-T-A
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing13 times per million words; the 6,047th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Sounds like
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 outta?

Outta appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 6,047th 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 outta?

  • /ˈaʊtə/
  • UK [ˈaʊtə]
  • UK [ˈaʊʔə]

Outta 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-uk-outta.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-outta.wav, En-us-outta.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with outta

Sounds like: outer (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Also written: outa.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with outta?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as outta.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: tatou.

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 outta

  • oudda
  • outa

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

What does outta mean?

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

preposition

  1. 1

    UScolloquialOut of.

    I'm outta here!

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

What to look up after outta