phaseout
noun
phaseout is a noun meaning “The action of phasing out; an incremental removal or reduction” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-H-A-S-E-O-U-T and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of phaseout is phaseouts.
What does phaseout mean?
noun
- 1
The action of phasing out; an incremental removal or reduction.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce phaseout?
Phaseout 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).
Forms of phaseout
- phaseouts plural
- phase-out
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is phaseout?
Phaseout appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd 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).
Phaseout in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | eliminación gradual, retirada paulatina |
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 phaseout come from?
Deverbal from phase out.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).