playout
noun
playout is a noun meaning “The transmission of radio or television channels from the broadcaster into the networks that deliver them to the audience” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-L-A-Y-O-U-T, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of playout is playouts.
What does playout mean?
noun
- 1
The transmission of radio or television channels from the broadcaster into the networks that deliver them to the audience.
- 2
(also play-out) A relegation playoff; a game or short series of games needed to decide relegation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of playout
- playouts plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is playout?
Playout appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 136,649th 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).
Where does playout come from?
From play + out.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).