coming out
\kɔ.mi.ŋ‿a.ut\
The verdict
“coming out” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Annonce d’une orientation sexuelle (bisexualité, homosexualité, asexualité, etc.) ou d’une identité transgenre et/ou non binaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coming-out · coming out · French
coming 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 "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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 | coming out |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.mi.ŋ‿a.ut\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
coming out is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.mi.ŋ‿a.ut\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for coming out, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is coming out, spelled C-O-M-I-N-G- -O-U-T.
Definition
- 1Annonce d’une orientation sexuelle (bisexualité, homosexualité, asexualité, etc.) ou d’une identité transgenre et/ou non binaire.
- 2Affirmation de l’identité d’une personne.
- 3Révélation d’une information cachée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coming out appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au menu : des tables rondes, dont celles animées par notre journaliste Lise Abou Mansour, à qui l’on doit la rubrique Ma tête et moi (la première traite du coming-out, la seconde a pour thème Filmer la psychanalyse), des ateliers interactifs, des talks.
Cette expression est synonyme du coming out occidental et a la spécificité au Cameroun d’être marquée par un certain refus de « sortir du sac » ou du « nkuta ». (Charles Gueboguo, La question homosexuelle en Afrique. le cas du Cameroun, L’Harmattan, 2006.)
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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.