outworn
"outworn" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“outworn” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - past participle of outwear
Corpus desk
Index EN-outworn · outworn · English
outworn · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 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 | outworn |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “outworn” in English
Rare enough to double-check
outworn is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "past participle of outwear".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for outworn, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is outworn, spelled O-U-T-W-O-R-N.
Definition
- 1past participle of outwear
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how outworn appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
My sister gave away her shoes from when she was little, having outworn them.
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.