outshone
/aʊtˈʃɒn/
"outshone" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“outshone” is uncommon English (frequency #86,605 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,605
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of outshine
Corpus desk
Index EN-outshone · outshone · English
outshone · rank #86,605 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,605
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH outscore
Nearest frequency peer: outscore (-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 “outshone”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- oppositely
oppositely
13,403 corpus weight
- orogeny
orogeny
13,400 corpus weight
- orthostatic
orthostatic
13,399 corpus weight
- outscore
outscore
13,397 corpus weight
- outshone
outshone
13,396 corpus weight
- pada
pada
13,392 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “outshone” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | outshone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /aʊtˈʃɒn/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “outshone” in English
Rare enough to double-check
outshone is uncommon English at frequency #86,605 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /aʊtˈʃɒn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of outshine".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for outshone, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is outshone, spelled O-U-T-S-H-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of outshine
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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