lineout
"lineout" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lineout” is uncommon English (frequency #92,807 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,807
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A set piece where the hooker throws the ball into play between a row of players from each team.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lineout · lineout · English
lineout · rank #92,807 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,807
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH literalism
Nearest frequency peer: literalism (+2 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “lineout”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Lefkowitz
Lefkowitz
7,201 corpus weight
- Levite
Levite
7,197 corpus weight
- lineout
lineout
7,194 corpus weight
- literalism
literalism
7,192 corpus weight
- localhost
localhost
7,190 corpus weight
- lof
lof
7,189 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “lineout” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lineout |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,807 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lineout” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lineout is uncommon English at frequency #92,807 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lineout, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is lineout, spelled L-I-N-E-O-U-T.
Definition
- 1A set piece where the hooker throws the ball into play between a row of players from each team.
- 2The lineup of players in a lineout (sense 1).
- 3An out produced by catching a line drive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lineout appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Turner looked assured, picking out his men at the lineouts, while Redpath was seeing plenty of the ball and also looked the part as the Scots probed for opening.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).