sunder out

verb

"sunder-out" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“sunder out” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To separate or set apart from others; split out; segregate.

Corpus desk

Index EN-sunder-out · sunder out · English

sunder out · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "S" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for sunder out
PropertyValue
Headwordsunder out
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “sunder out” in English

sunder outsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sunder out is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sunder out, 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, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

Etymologically, the entry records: From sunder (“to separate”) + out. The correct English form is sunder out, spelled S-U-N-D-E-R- -O-U-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    To separate or set apart from others; split out; segregate.
  2. 2
    To apportion; allot; assign.
  3. 3
    To remove a piece of something from the whole; separate out.
  4. 4
    To break out; divide or scatter about.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. The critics, however, sunder out one of the number and arbitrarily assign it to a different document from the rest.
  2. It is still possible, of course, for a critic to sunder out of P as a whole this section or that, and to say of it, this is post-exilic, it belongs to a late supplemental stratum of P.

Etymology

From sunder (“to separate”) + out.

Synonyms

separate out

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sunder out"?
"sunder out" is spelled S-U-N-D-E-R- -O-U-T.
What does "sunder out" mean?
As a verb, "sunder out" means: To separate or set apart from others; split out; segregate.
What is the origin of the word "sunder out"?
From sunder (“to separate”) + out. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list