coming out
/ˈkʌ.mɪŋ ˈaʊt/
"coming-out" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coming out” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of come out
Corpus desk
Index EN-coming-out · coming out · English
coming out · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coming out |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈkʌ.mɪŋ ˈaʊt/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “coming out” in English
Rare enough to double-check
coming out is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈkʌ.mɪŋ ˈaʊt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of come out".
No generated misspelling entries exist for coming out in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is coming out, spelled C-O-M-I-N-G- -O-U-T.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of come out
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.