kick out

verb

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"kick-out" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“kick 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 eject, dismiss, expel, or forcefully remove (someone or something).

Corpus desk

Index EN-kick-out · kick out · English

kick 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 "K" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for kick out
PropertyValue
Headwordkick out
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “kick out” in English

kick outranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

kick 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 kick out in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is kick out, spelled K-I-C-K- -O-U-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    To eject, dismiss, expel, or forcefully remove (someone or something).
  2. 2
    To stop, stall, or disconnect suddenly.
  3. 3
    To perform a kickout.
  4. 4
    To improvise music.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how kick out appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. They will kick out a disruptive patron.
  2. I got kicked out for eating inside.

Synonyms

boot outchase offdischargedismissdrive outejectevictexcludeexpelforce outhand someone his hatkick outoustput outsend about one's businesssend someone packingshoothrow outtossturf out

Antonyms

leaveacceptharborinviteshelterwelcome

This word in other languages

echar(Español)mettre à la porte(Français)rausschmeißen(Deutsch)expulsar(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "kick out"?
"kick out" is spelled K-I-C-K- -O-U-T.
What does "kick out" mean?
As a verb, "kick out" means: To eject, dismiss, expel, or forcefully remove (someone or something).
What language does "kick out" come from?
"kick out" is a English word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list