outfall
/ˈaʊtˌfɔl/
"outfall" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“outfall” is uncommon English (frequency #89,716 among 15,494 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,716
- frequency rank, English
- 15,494
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To burst forth, as upon an enemy; make a sally.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | outfall |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈaʊtˌfɔl/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “outfall” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
outfall is uncommon English at frequency #89,716 among 15,494 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈaʊtˌfɔl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To burst forth, as upon an enemy; make a sally.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for outfall, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English outfallen, equivalent to out- + fall. Compare Dutch uitvallen (“to fall out, sally”), German ausfallen (“to fall out, lunge”), Swedish utfalla (“to fall out”). The correct English form is outfall, spelled O-U-T-F-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1To burst forth, as upon an enemy; make a sally.
Etymology
From Middle English outfallen, equivalent to out- + fall. Compare Dutch uitvallen (“to fall out, sally”), German ausfallen (“to fall out, lunge”), Swedish utfalla (“to fall out”).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “outfall”
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- The one correct English spelling is O-U-T-F-A-L-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.