outskirt
/ˈaʊtskɝt/
"outskirt" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“outskirt” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A more remote part of a town or city; the periphery, environs; a suburb.
Corpus desk
Index EN-outskirt · outskirt · English
outskirt · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | outskirt |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈaʊtskɝt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “outskirt” in English
Rare enough to double-check
outskirt is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈaʊtskɝt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A more remote part of a town or city; the periphery, environs; a suburb.".
Zero misspellings are on record for outskirt in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From out- + skirt. The correct English form is outskirt, spelled O-U-T-S-K-I-R-T.
Definition
- 1A more remote part of a town or city; the periphery, environs; a suburb.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how outskirt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Many people commute into the business district from the outskirts of town.
I told her of my plan to take John into an urban outskirt area for the purpose of retrieving some vital technical manuals.
Etymology
From out- + skirt.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.