go-out
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "go-out", 6-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 "go-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 "go-out" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
go out is aEnglishverb. It means: To leave, especially a building.
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|---|---|
| Headword | go out |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for go out is 6 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 18 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for go 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 go out, spelled G-O- -O-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1To leave, especially a building.
- 2To leave one's abode to go to public places, especially for recreation or entertainment.
- 3To be eliminated from a competition.
- 4To come to an end, by nature or by an unseen external agent.
- 5To come to an end, by nature or by an unseen external agent.
- 6To come to an end, by nature or by an unseen external agent.
- 7To come to an end, by nature or by an unseen external agent.
- 8To come to an end, by nature or by an unseen external agent.
- 9To discard or meld all the cards in one's hand.
- 10To pass out of fashion; be on the wane.
- 11To have a romantic relationship, one that involves going out together on dates; to be a couple.
- 12To have a romantic relationship (with someone).
- 13To fail.
- 14To spend the last moments of a show (while playing something).
- 15To recede; to ebb.
- 16To sympathize with; to express positive feelings towards.
- 17To take part in a duel (with).
- 18To be broadcast.
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