buyout
"buyout" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“buyout” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #23,770. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,770
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The acquisition of a controlling interest in a business or corporation by outright purchase or by purchase of a majority of issued shares of stock.
Corpus desk
Index EN-buyout · buyout · English
buyout · rank #23,770 · 8 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,770
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH buttocks
Nearest frequency peer: buttocks (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “buyout”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- burnout
burnout
76,233 corpus weight
- buttocks
buttocks
76,232 corpus weight
- buyout
buyout
76,231 corpus weight
- byte
byte
76,230 corpus weight
- cancerous
cancerous
76,229 corpus weight
- carat
carat
76,228 corpus weight
What this shows “buyout” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buyout |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “buyout”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around buyout, anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,770 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for buyout, with forms such as "bbuyout", "buoyut", and "buyotu". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "bout", "bayou", "burnout", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Deverbal from buy out. The correct English form is buyout, spelled B-U-Y-O-U-T.
Definition
- 1The acquisition of a controlling interest in a business or corporation by outright purchase or by purchase of a majority of issued shares of stock.
- 2The use of grant monies to pay for another person to perform the usual duties, especially teaching duties, of someone engaged on the funded project.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how buyout appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday became the first major national security agency to offer so-called buyouts to its entire workforce, a CIA spokesperson and two other sources familiar with the offer said, part of President Donald Trump’s broad effort to shrink the federal government and shape it to his agenda.
Those orders frustrated the administration’s attempt to bring a quick close to the so-called buyout offer.
Etymology
Deverbal from buy out.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbuyout
- buoyut
- buyotu
- buyoutt
- buyuot
- buyyout
- byuout
- ubyout
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of buyout - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "buyout", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).