outgroup
"outgroup" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“outgroup” is uncommon English (frequency #72,624 among 15,494 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,624
- frequency rank, English
- 15,494
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The group of people who do not belong to one's own social group.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | outgroup |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,624 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “outgroup” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
outgroup is uncommon English at frequency #72,624 among 15,494 “O” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
outgroup has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From out- + group. The correct English form is outgroup, spelled O-U-T-G-R-O-U-P.
Definition
- 1The group of people who do not belong to one's own social group.
- 2In cladistics, all the taxa included in a study that do not belong to the ingroup that is of immediate interest.
Etymology
From out- + group.
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 “outgroup”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is O-U-T-G-R-O-U-P - 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.