# lid

> English word · Noun · IPA /lɪd/ · frequency rank #9,491

## Definitions
1. The top or cover of a container.
2. A cap or hat.
3. One ounce of cannabis.
4. A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
5. An operculum or other lid-like cover.
6. A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
7. In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
8. Clipping of eyelid.
9. A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
10. A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.
11. A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid).

## Etymology
Inherited from Middle English lid, lyd, from Old English hlid, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą (compare Dutch lid, German Lid (“eyelid”), Swedish lid (“gate”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlitós (“covered”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to cover”).

## Easily confused with
- **Lt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lid-vs-lt)
- **lo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lid-vs-lo)
- **LP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lid-vs-lp)
- **LN** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lid-vs-ln)
- **Ls** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lid-vs-ls)
- **lu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lid-vs-lu)
- **LV** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lid-vs-lv)
- **LR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lid-vs-lr)
- **LM** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lid-vs-lm)
- **LJ** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lid-vs-lj)
- **lx** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lid-vs-lx)
- **LZ** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lid-vs-lz)
- **lot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lid-vs-lot)
- **low** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lid-vs-low)
- **lol** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lid-vs-lol)
- **lie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lid-vs-lie)
- **los** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lid-vs-los)
- **log** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lid-vs-log)
- **lit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lid-vs-lit)
- **lip** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lid-vs-lip)

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/lid