talk out of
"talk-out-of" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“talk out of” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To talk to someone in order to dissuade them from doing something.
Corpus desk
Index EN-talk-out-of · talk out of · English
talk out of · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" 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 | talk out of |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “talk out of” in English
Rare enough to double-check
talk out of is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To talk to someone in order to dissuade them from doing something.".
No misspelling variants are generated for talk out of in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is talk out of, spelled T-A-L-K- -O-U-T- -O-F.
Definition
- 1To talk to someone in order to dissuade them from doing something.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how talk out of appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
My brother wanted a pet squirrel, but I talked him out of it.
She talked the officer out of giving her a ticket.
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.