put someone out of their misery
"put-someone-out-of-their-misery" is a 26-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“put someone out of their misery” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 31
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To submit a suffering person or an animal to euthanasia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-put-someone-out-of-their · put someone out of their misery · English
put someone out of their misery · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 31 letters
- VOW-13 13 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | put someone out of their misery |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 31 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “put someone out of their misery” in English
Rare enough to double-check
put someone out of their misery is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for put someone out of their misery, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is put someone out of their misery, spelled P-U-T- -S-O-M-E-O-N-E- -O-U-T- -O-F- -T-H-E-I-R- -M-I-S-E-R-Y.
Definition
- 1To submit a suffering person or an animal to euthanasia.
- 2To end or destroy something for the good of the individuals involved in it.
- 3To relieve somebody's anxiety by supplying information that they wanted to know.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how put someone out of their misery appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And with some United supporters actually pleading with referee Clattenburg to put them out of their misery, one more moment of brilliance from the magical Silva found Dzeko surging into the area to finish left-footed for his second.
It had been a mighty struggle, but they'd managed to put out her fires. The next time she tried to put Zevala out of its misery, it was going to damn well work. There was going to be nobody left to stop her.
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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.