talk out of turn
"talk-out-of-turn" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“talk out of turn” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To make a remark or provide information when it is inappropriate or indiscreet to do so, or when one does not have permission or the authority to do so.
Corpus desk
Index EN-talk-out-of-turn · talk out of turn · English
talk out of turn · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 turn |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “talk out of turn” in English
Rare enough to double-check
talk out of turn is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To make a remark or provide information when it is inappropriate or indiscreet to do so, or when one does not have permission or the authority to do so.".
talk out of turn doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is talk out of turn, spelled T-A-L-K- -O-U-T- -O-F- -T-U-R-N.
Definition
- 1To make a remark or provide information when it is inappropriate or indiscreet to do so, or when one does not have permission or the authority to do so.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how talk out of turn appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wherever she was, she always essayed the leading social role; and it was seldom that a woman said to her: "Mrs. Volante, you are talking out of turn."
"If the President is wise, he will henceforth confine his press conferences to domestic questions." . . . With these words, Pundit Walter Lippmann last week reprimanded Franklin Roosevelt for talking out of turn about religious freedom in Russia.
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.