outputting
/ˈaʊtpʊtɪŋ/
"outputting" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“outputting” is uncommon English (frequency #79,830 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,830
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of output
Corpus desk
Index EN-outputting · outputting · English
outputting · rank #79,830 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,830
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH outgrowing
Nearest frequency peer: outgrowing (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “outputting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- orn
orn
20,175 corpus weight
- Otley
Otley
20,173 corpus weight
- outgrowing
outgrowing
20,172 corpus weight
- outputting
outputting
20,171 corpus weight
- oversubscri…
oversubscribed
20,168 corpus weight
- pails
pails
20,166 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “outputting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | outputting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈaʊtpʊtɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “outputting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
outputting is uncommon English at frequency #79,830 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈaʊtpʊtɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of output".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for outputting, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is outputting, spelled O-U-T-P-U-T-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of output
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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