outing
\aw.tiŋ\
The verdict
“outing” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fait de révéler l’orientation sexuelle et/ou l’identité de genre d’une personne sans ou contre son avis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-outing · outing · French
outing · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" 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 | outing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aw.tiŋ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « outing » en français
Rare enough to double-check
outing is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \aw.tiŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fait de révéler l’orientation sexuelle et/ou l’identité de genre d’une personne sans ou contre son avis.".
Zero misspellings are on record for outing in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is outing, spelled O-U-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Fait de révéler l’orientation sexuelle et/ou l’identité de genre d’une personne sans ou contre son avis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how outing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Act-up avait menacé d'outing (révélation contre son gré de son homosexualité) un député d'opposition ayant participé à la manifestation organisée contre le Pacs du 31 janvier à Paris, estimant que ce rassemblement avait «été le théâtre d'une haine antihomosexuelle d'une rare violence».
« On retrouve également des personnes de la communauté LGBT+, qui ont souvent été victimes d’outing [le fait de révéler l’orientation sexuelle de quelqu’un sans son consentement] », ajoute Juliette Sanchez-Lambert.
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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.