outs
\ˈaʊts\
The verdict
“outs” is uncommon French (frequency #79,587 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,587
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de out.
Corpus desk
Index FR-outs · outs · French
outs · rank #79,587 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,587
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH outillés
Nearest frequency peer: outillés (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « outs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oscillateurs
oscillateurs
20,418 corpus weight
- outfit
outfit
20,416 corpus weight
- outillés
outillés
20,415 corpus weight
- outs
outs
20,414 corpus weight
- papys
papys
20,411 corpus weight
- parachutages
parachutages
20,410 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « outs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | outs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈaʊts\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #79,587 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « outs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
outs is uncommon French at frequency #79,587 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈaʊts\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de out.".
Zero misspellings are on record for outs in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is outs, spelled O-U-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de out.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how outs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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