come-out
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "come-out", 8-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 "come-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 "come-out" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
come out is aEnglishverb. It means: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, out. Pronounced /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/.
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|---|---|
| Headword | come out |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for come out is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for come 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 come out, spelled C-O-M-E- -O-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, out.
- 2To be discovered; to be revealed.
- 3To be published or released; to be issued; to be broadcast for the first time.
- 4To make a formal debut in society.
- 5To end up or result; to turn out to be.
- 6To walk onto the field at the beginning of an innings.
- 7To come out of the closet.
- 8To originate in; to derive from; to be taken from out of or to have arrived from.
- 9To express one's opinion openly.
- 10To become visible in the sky as a result of clouds clearing away.
- 11To protest or go on strike, especially out of solidarity with other workers.
- 12To make a debut in a new field; to start off a career or reputation.
- 13To emerge from or reach the end of an era, event or process.
- 14To be removed.
- 15To join a church; to convert to a religion.
- 16To begin with something.
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