vouch for
"vouch-for" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vouch for” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To affirm the truth or reliability of.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vouch-for · vouch for · English
vouch for · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" 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 | vouch for |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “vouch for” in English
Rare enough to double-check
vouch for is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To affirm the truth or reliability of.".
vouch for doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 vouch for, spelled V-O-U-C-H- -F-O-R.
Definition
- 1To affirm the truth or reliability of.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vouch for appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Let him in. I’ll vouch for his good behaviour.
This word in other languages
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.