outrage

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The English entry for outrage is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈaʊt.ɹeɪd͡ʒ/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,075 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for outrage, with forms such as "oturage", "ourtage", and "outarge". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "outraged", "outage", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English outrage, from Old French outrage, oultrage (“excess”), from Vulgar Latin *ultrāticum ("a going beyond"), derived from Latin ultrā (“beyond”). Later reanalysed as out- + rage, whence the contemporary pronunciation, though neither of these… 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 outrage, spelled O-U-T-R-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.