Outing
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#44,120
in German word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
Outing is aGermannoun. It means: Handlung, sich zu etwas zu bekennen, speziell zur Homosexualität Pronounced [ˈaʊ̯tɪŋ]. Often confused with outen and Ortung.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Outing |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaʊ̯tɪŋ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Outing is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaʊ̯tɪŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #44,120 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for Outing, with forms such as "otuing", "ouitng", and "outign". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "outen", "Ortung", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Outing, spelled O-U-T-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Handlung, sich zu etwas zu bekennen, speziell zur Homosexualität
- 2einen anderen betreffende Enthüllung, speziell der Homosexualität
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: otuing,ouitng,outign,outingg,outinng,outnig,outting,uoting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Outing
Misspelling Variants of "Outing"
Frequency rank: #44,120 in German
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