How do you pronounce out of kilter?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˌaʊt əv ˈkɪltɚ/.

out of kilter

/ˌaʊt əv ˈkɪltɚ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.48 in modern English

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"I stayed up late to watch a movie, and my entire sleeping schedule has been out of kilter ever since."
"Aye, ſquire, that thing [a statue of Hercules] has been fixt in this ſpot I warrant you theſe hundred years; it was ſadly out of kilter when I came to the eſtate, but I got my neighbour the conſtable, who is a carpenter, to make him that right arm, and put the ſtaff into it, for I could not bear to ſee ſuch a clumſy log as he had in it before; [...]"
"Wall, chilern, whar dar is so much racket dar must be somethin' out o' kilter. I thik dat 'twixt de niggers of de Souf and de womin at de Norf, all talkin' 'bout rights, de white men will be in a fix pretty soon."
"[T]hey are either round-shouldered, knock-kneed, bow-legged, or parrot-toed; some are also badly cross-eyed. It seems as if they can see two different ways at the same time. Jack says they are lop-sided and out of kilter altogether."
"[H]e lived on tinned tomatoes, beef embalmed and sourdough bread, / On rusty beans and bacon furred with mould; / His stomach’s out of kilter and his system full of lead, / But it's over, and his poke is full of gold."
"Snowstorms often knock the Government's Salt Lake radio range out of kilter."

From out of + kilter, kelter (“good condition, form, or order; fettle”). The latter word is of uncertain origin, but appears widely in a British dialect and also in the United States.

out of kelter (alternative)

off-kilter

off-kilter