outlandish
/ˌaʊtˈlændɪʃ/
"outlandish" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“outlandish” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #26,539. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,539
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native; alien, foreign.
Corpus desk
Index EN-outlandish · outlandish · English
outlandish · rank #26,539 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,539
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH outlying
Nearest frequency peer: outlying (+1 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “outlandish”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- opportunist…
opportunistic
73,465 corpus weight
- Orson
Orson
73,464 corpus weight
- outlandish
outlandish
73,462 corpus weight
- outlying
outlying
73,461 corpus weight
- oxidative
oxidative
73,460 corpus weight
- pacifist
pacifist
73,459 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “outlandish” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | outlandish |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˌaʊtˈlændɪʃ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #26,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “outlandish” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around outlandish (IPA /ˌaʊtˈlændɪʃ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #26,539 among 1,431 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for outlandish, with forms such as "otulandish", "oultandish", and "outalndish". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: The adjective is derived from Middle English outlandisch, outlondish (“foreign”), from Old English ūtlendisċ (“foreign; strange, outlandish”), from Proto-West Germanic *ūtlandisk, from Proto-Germanic *ūtlandiskaz, from *ūtlandą (“(adjective) alien, foreign;… The correct English form is outlandish, spelled O-U-T-L-A-N-D-I-S-H.
Definition
- 1Of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native; alien, foreign.
- 2Appearing to be foreign; strange, unfamiliar.
- 3Greatly different from common experience; bizarre, outrageous, strange.
- 4Of a place: far away from where most people are located; in the middle of nowhere, out of the way, remote.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how outlandish appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[W]e haue bꝛokẽ thy ſtatutes ⁊ cõmaundementes agayne, ⁊ mengled o^ꝛ ſelues wᵗ the vnclẽnes of the outlandiſh heithen.
Apiſhneſſe rides in a Chariot made of nothing but cages, in which are all the ſtrangeſt out-landiſh Birds that can be gotten: […]
Etymology
The adjective is derived from Middle English outlandisch, outlondish (“foreign”), from Old English ūtlendisċ (“foreign; strange, outlandish”), from Proto-West Germanic *ūtlandisk, from Proto-Germanic *ūtlandiskaz, from *ūtlandą (“(adjective) alien, foreign; relating to outlying land; (noun) foreign land; outlying land”) + *-iskaz (suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘characteristic of; pertaining to’). *Ūtlandą is derived from *ūt- (suffix meaning ‘beyond; external to, on the outside of’) (from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“away; out, outward; upwards”)) + *landą (“area of ground, land”) (from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“heath; land”)). By surface analysis, outland + -ish. The noun is derived from the adjective. Cognates * Danish udenlandsk (“foreign, non-domestic”) * Dutch uitlands (dated) (now buitenlands (“foreign, non-domestic”)), Dutch uitlandig (“absent from the home country”) (now chiefly Suriname) * Faroese útlendskur (“foreign, non-domestic”) * German ausländisch (“foreign, non-domestic”) * Icelandic útlenskur (“foreign”) * Swedish utländsk (“foreign, non-domestic”)
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otulandish
- oultandish
- outalndish
- outladnish
- outlanddish
- outlandihs
- outlandishh
- outlandissh
- outlandsih
- outlanidsh
- outlanndish
- outllandish
- outlnadish
- outtlandish
- uotlandish
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of outlandish - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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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.