out of touch

adj

"out-of-touch" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“out of touch” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
12
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - No longer maintaining contact or communications.

Corpus desk

Index EN-out-of-touch · out of touch · English

out of touch · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "O" 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.

Key facts for out of touch
PropertyValue
Headwordout of touch
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “out of touch” in English

out of touchranks 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

out of touch is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for out of touch in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is out of touch, spelled O-U-T- -O-F- -T-O-U-C-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    No longer maintaining contact or communications.
  2. 2
    Disconnected or insulated from the everyday experiences and concerns of ordinary people.
  3. 3
    No longer conversant with crucial basics such as facts, reality, the real world, and sanity; not aware or realistic.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. I had been out of touch with my old friend for a long time when she called.
  2. I don't feel a single thing / Have the pills done too much / Haven't caught up with my friends in weeks / And now we're outta touch

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "out of touch"?
"out of touch" is spelled O-U-T- -O-F- -T-O-U-C-H.
What does "out of touch" mean?
As an adjective, "out of touch" means: No longer maintaining contact or communications.
What language does "out of touch" come from?
"out of touch" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list