outsold
/ɑʊtˈsɔld/
"outsold" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“outsold” is uncommon English (frequency #58,910 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,910
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of outsell
Corpus desk
Index EN-outsold · outsold · English
outsold · rank #58,910 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,910
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH outdid
Nearest frequency peer: outdid (-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 “outsold”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Orla
Orla
41,094 corpus weight
- outdid
outdid
41,092 corpus weight
- outsold
outsold
41,091 corpus weight
- overcharging
overcharging
41,090 corpus weight
- overexpress…
overexpression
41,089 corpus weight
- overshot
overshot
41,088 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “outsold” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | outsold |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɑʊtˈsɔld/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “outsold” in English
Rare enough to double-check
outsold is uncommon English at frequency #58,910 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɑʊtˈsɔld/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of outsell".
No misspelling variants are generated for outsold in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is outsold, spelled O-U-T-S-O-L-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of outsell
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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