check-out
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "check-out", 9-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "check-out" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "check-out" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
check out is aEnglishverb. It means: To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | check out |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for check out is 9 letters long, classified as averb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for check out in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable English patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 English form is check out, spelled C-H-E-C-K- -O-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
- 2To record one's departure from a workplace, hotel, restaurant, etc.
- 3To examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate; to gather information so as to make a decision.
- 4To obtain source code (or other material) from a source control repository so that one can modify it (and often later check in the modified version back).
- 5To become uninterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative.
- 6To become catatonic or otherwise nonresponsive.
- 7To leave in a hurry.
- 8To die.
- 9To prove (after an investigation) to be the case, or to be in order.
- 10To visit the oche for the last time and clear one's remaining points to win the game.
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