payout
noun
payout is spelled P-A-Y-O-U-T: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.3 times per million words in written English, the 18,064th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “pay-out vs payout” about 20 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, payout means “An amount of money paid out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of payout is payouts.
How many letters and syllables are in payout?
| Letters | 6: P-A-Y-O-U-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.3 times per million words; the 18,064th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people 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); 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).
How common is payout?
Payout appears 2.3 times per million words in written English, the 18,064th 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 payout?
- US
Payout 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)-Wodencafe-payout.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with payout
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: pay-out (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of payout
- payouts plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does payout mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An amount of money paid out.
The maximum payout from this fruit machine is £20.
- 2
The value of dividends paid to shareholders.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Payout in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense an amount of money paid out:
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 payout come from?
Deverbal from pay out.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).