A: The current preference is for one word, no hyphen: “tryout.” This comes from the most recent editions of my two principal dictionaries: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.

Is it tryouts or try outs?

Word forms: tryouts

If you give something a tryout, you try it or test it to see how useful it is. The recycling program gets its first tryout in Idaho.

How do you use tryout in a sentence?

a test of the suitability of a performer. 1. to have a tryout free of charge. 2. Much of our SleepTight tryout was spent deciphering directions.