outlast

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The English entry for outlast is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌaʊtˈlɑːst/. Corpus data places it at rank #36,697 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "To live, last or remain longer than.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for outlast, with forms such as "otulast", "oultast", and "outalst". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "outlet", "outlaw", "outlay", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From out- + last. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is outlast, spelled O-U-T-L-A-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.