dish out
"dish-out" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dish 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
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To put (food) on to a dish ready for eating.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dish-out · dish out · English
dish out · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" 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 | dish out |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dish out” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dish out is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for dish out in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is dish out, spelled D-I-S-H- -O-U-T.
Definition
- 1To put (food) on to a dish ready for eating.
- 2To distribute (a thing).
- 3To distribute or deliver something.
- 4To hollow out, as a gutter in stone or wood.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dish out appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She can dish out criticism but she can't take it.
Saka was a threat from the first whistle; Ukraine rightly wary of him and dishing out the usual whacks.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.