wear out
"wear-out" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wear 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
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To cause (something) to become damaged, useless, or ineffective through continued use, especially hard, heavy, or careless use.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wear-out · wear out · English
wear out · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" 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 | wear out |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “wear out” in English
Rare enough to double-check
wear out is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for wear out, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is wear out, spelled W-E-A-R- -O-U-T.
Definition
- 1To cause (something) to become damaged, useless, or ineffective through continued use, especially hard, heavy, or careless use.
- 2To deteriorate or become unusable or ineffective due to continued use, exposure, or strain.
- 3To exhaust; to cause or contribute to another's exhaustion, fatigue, or weariness, as by continued strain or exertion.
- 4To become exhausted, tired, fatigued, or weary, as by continued strain or exertion.
- 5Of apparel, to display in public.
- 6Of a shirt, to not tuck into the pants; to wear in a casual manner.
- 7To punish by spanking.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wear out appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
You're going to wear out that game if you keep playing so rough with it.
He wears a pair of tennis shoes out every summer.
Synonyms
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.