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rainout

noun

rainout is spelled R-A-I-N-O-U-T: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, rainout means “Something which has been cancelled due to interfering rain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of rainout is rainouts.

How many letters and syllables are in rainout?

Letters7: R-A-I-N-O-U-T
In writingabout once in every 25 million words; the 152,206th 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 rainout?

Rainout appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th 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).

Forms of rainout

  • rainouts plural

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

What does rainout mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Something which has been cancelled due to interfering rain.

  2. 2

    Such a cancellation.

  3. 3

    Nuclear fallout deposited by means of rain.

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

Where does rainout come from?

From rain + out.

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

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