pullout

Name: pullout, English Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“pullout” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #47,852. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#47,852
frequency rank, English: 4,417
“P” headwords: 8
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A withdrawal, especially of armed forces.

Corpus desk

Index EN-pullout · pullout · English

pullout · rank #47,852 · 8 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-MID #47,852
LEN-LONG 7 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-MID 8 variants
BOOK-MID 4,417
PHOTO-FINISH puppeteer

Nearest frequency peer: puppeteer (+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.

prophylaxis

52,153
psh

52,151
pullout

52,149
puppeteer

52,148
purist

52,147
purposed

52,146

What this shows “pullout” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Key facts for pullout
Property	Value
Headword	pullout
Language	English
Part of speech	Noun
Letters	7
Frequency rank	#47,852
Misspellings tracked	8
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “pullout”

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right).pulloutlands here:

#47,852

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Same rarity band neighbours include “puppeteer” (#47,853), “psh” (#47,850), “purist” (#47,854). Among 4,417 “P” headwords, “pullout” is #47,852. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around pullout, anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,852 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pullout, with forms such as "plulout", "ppullout", and "pullotu". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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: Deverbal from pull out. The correct English form is pullout, spelled P-U-L-L-O-U-T.

Definition

1
A withdrawal, especially of armed forces.
2
The change of the flight of an aircraft from a dive to level or climbing flight.
3
An object, such as a newspaper supplement, that can be pulled out from something else.
4
Synonym of liftout (“quotation given special visual treatment”).
5
An area by the side of a road where vehicles may temporarily stop in safety. Typical pullouts allow drivers and passengers to safely exit the vehicle but rarely have additional amenities.
6
The ending of a period of surfing by navigating the surfboard into or over the back of a wave.
7
The coitus interruptus method of birth control.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how pullout appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Capt. Greg Baarts with the CHP Northern Division says information pulled from the SUV's software shows the vehicle was stopped at the highway pullout before it accelerated straight off the cliff.
Here's a pretty strange pullout. An "El Rollo." When Corky does something strange, everyone for 50 yards knows all about it.

Etymology

Deverbal from pull out.

This word in other languages

marcha atrás(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

plulout
ppullout
pullotu
pulloutt
pulluot
pulolut
pulout
upllout

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pullout - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "pullout"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pullout"?

"pullout" is spelled P-U-L-L-O-U-T.

What does "pullout" mean?

As a noun, "pullout" means: A withdrawal, especially of armed forces.

What are common misspellings of "pullout"?

Common misspellings include "plulout", "ppullout", "pullotu", "pulloutt", "pulluot". The correct spelling is "pullout".

What is the origin of the word "pullout"?

Deverbal from pull out. See the full etymology section above for more details.

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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pullout", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

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