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# How to pronounce "failed out" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/fɪlɛdæʊt/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **fai·le·dout**

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "failed out" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "doctor, not just a doctor. And that didn't really align with my motivational system at all. It was coming from the ego. And so I kind of failed out. And then 7 years later started med school a few years later at that wound up ironically training at Harvard and being faculty there. And so going back to karma for a second, I I share this example because a lot of times when we look at things that we"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 149:39](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esu8BXLBmZ4&t=8979s)

### Example 2
> "failed out of college and so I went to Savannah Georgia where we had a a house"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tABQdUF4fU0&t=366s)

### Example 3
> "I failed out. I moved back home to Indianapolis, my parents."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CausE8Sc8Uc&t=361s)

### Example 4
> "I failed out. But I came back and graduated."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 46:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spOk0v4B3-Y&t=2763s)

### Example 5
> "I almost failed out of Smith."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 32:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlwDEMIRRSY&t=1939s)

### Example 6
> "My grades failed. I was almost-- I was pretty much a straight-A student before my conversion therapy, and I almost failed out of high school."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 12:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRM_vdFnUGg&t=731s)

### Example 7
> "for you uh because I used to believe that so I I struggled a lot I mean I'm I'm by all definitions of the word an absolute failure um I failed out of college uh was finished school at the age of 35 or 36 you know it took me a long time to kind of get on my feet and figure out what I was doing in my life and I realized that like the reason that I was"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_5N_aDu3u0&t=239s)

### Example 8
> "fraternity - because everybody else had failed out and so it was just them and no, but they couldn't tell anybody 'cause, 'cause if they found out that there was a fraternity on campus"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 19:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIx9bhQySO4&t=1159s)

### Example 9
> "I had started playing a lot of poker after I failed out of school."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 13:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CausE8Sc8Uc&t=831s)

### Example 10
> "and I come back and I've effectively failed out of college and so I went to Savannah Georgia where we had a a house"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:02](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPuSbHwjQHQ&t=362s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [figure out](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/figure-out), [work out](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/work-out), [make sense of](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/make-sense-of), [find out](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/find-out), [sort out](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/sort-out), [clear up](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/clear-up), [point out](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/point-out), [bring up](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/bring-up)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "failed out" correctly?
"failed out" is pronounced `/fɪlɛdæʊt/`. Syllable breakdown: **fai·le·dout**.

### What does "failed out" mean in context?
Refer to real speech examples in the video clips above to observe how native speakers use "failed out" in daily English.

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