outta

prep

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The verdict

“outta” is uncommon French (frequency #85,091 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a preposition. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#85,091
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contraction de out of.

Corpus desk

Index FR-outta · outta · French

outta · rank #85,091 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #85,091
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH oueds

Nearest frequency peer: oueds (-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 « outta »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « outta » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for outta
PropertyValue
Headwordoutta
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPreposition
Letters5
Frequency rank#85,091
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « outta » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.outtatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « oueds » (#85,090), « oval » (#85,092), « Ouaga » (#85,089). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « outta » est au #85,091. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

outta is uncommon French at frequency #85,091 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as apreposition. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Contraction de out of.".

No misspelling variants are generated for outta in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

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 French form is outta, spelled O-U-T-T-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Contraction de out of.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how outta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. I’m outta here!

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "outta"?
"outta" is spelled O-U-T-T-A.
What does "outta" mean?
As a preposition, "outta" means: Contraction de out of.
What language does "outta" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "outta", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

oueds#85,090Ouaga#85,089Pabst#85,094Otero#85,087

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list