find out
"find-out" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“find 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 discover, as by asking or investigating.
Corpus desk
Index EN-find-out · find out · English
find 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 "F" 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 | find out |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “find out” in English
Rare enough to double-check
find out is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
find out doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is find out, spelled F-I-N-D- -O-U-T.
Definition
- 1To discover, as by asking or investigating.
- 2To discover or expose (someone) as disobedient, dishonest, etc.
- 3To uncover a weakness in (someone).
- 4To discover (something), as by perceiving or coming upon it.
- 5To receive the consequences of one's actions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how find out appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I don't know who the twenty-first president of the United States was, but it should be very easy to find out.
"Why shouldn't somethin' new and wonderful lie in such a country? And why shouldn't we be the men to find it out?"
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.