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 May 6, 2026) - To keep quiet; to keep a secret; to not tell.
| 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) |
Where “keep one's lips sealed” sits in English frequency
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.
Synonyms
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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.
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Using “keep one's lips sealed”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is K-E-E-P- -O-N-E-'-S- -L-I-P-S- -S-E-A-L-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.