keep one's lips sealed
"keep-one-s-lips-sealed" is a 18-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“keep one's lips sealed” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To keep quiet; to keep a secret; to not tell.
Corpus desk
Index EN-keep-one-s-lips-sealed · keep one's lips sealed · English
keep one's lips sealed · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 22 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "K" 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 | keep one's lips sealed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “keep one's lips sealed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
keep one's lips sealed is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To keep quiet; to keep a secret; to not tell.".
keep one's lips sealed has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is keep one's lips sealed, spelled K-E-E-P- -O-N-E-'-S- -L-I-P-S- -S-E-A-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1To keep quiet; to keep a secret; to not tell.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how keep one's lips sealed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
You can certainly trust me to keep my lips sealed about the matter.
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.