lockout
"lockout" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lockout” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #24,499. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,499
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The opposite of a strike; a labor disruption where management refuses to allow workers into a plant to work even if they are willing.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lockout · lockout · English
lockout · rank #24,499 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,499
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lube
Nearest frequency peer: lube (+1 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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “lockout”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- liang
liang
75,505 corpus weight
- lids
lids
75,504 corpus weight
- lockout
lockout
75,502 corpus weight
- lube
lube
75,501 corpus weight
- Luton
Luton
75,500 corpus weight
- Macon
Macon
75,499 corpus weight
What this shows “lockout” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lockout |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “lockout”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around lockout, anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,499 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 10 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for lockout, with forms such as "lcokout", "llockout", and "locckout". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "lockup", "lookout", "locket", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Deverbal from lock out. The correct English form is lockout, spelled L-O-C-K-O-U-T.
Definition
- 1The opposite of a strike; a labor disruption where management refuses to allow workers into a plant to work even if they are willing.
- 2The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock.
- 3The exclusion of certain people from a place, event, situation, etc.
- 4The restriction of a population to a certain area, but allowing free movement within that region, in order to prevent the spread of disease. Compare lockdown.
- 5The situation of being locked out of a building.
- 6A situation where the system is not responding to input.
- 7A safety device designed to prevent touching a moving part when it is under operation; a safety device to keep the power supply turned off during repairs; the standardized practice and method whereby such devices are deployed.
- 8The final portion of a weightlifting motion where all applicable limbs or joints are fully extended or "locked out".
- 9An exercise meant to increase strength in the lockout portion of a lifting motion.
- 10A form of vote splitting in a two-round voting system which a large number of candidates with similar politics prevent each other from advancing to the second round, allowing a pair of opposition candidates to face each other in the runoff.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lockout appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The first was in the Babylonian halls of the big hotel, which was the meeting place of the three commercial magnates concerned with arranging for a coal lock-out and denouncing it as a coal strike, the second was in a curious tavern, having the façade of a grocery store, where met the more subterranean triumvirate of those who would have been very glad to…
It's another front-row lockout for Mercedes on the starting grid of the Japanese Grand Prix.
Etymology
Deverbal from lock out.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lcokout
- llockout
- locckout
- lockkout
- lockotu
- lockoutt
- lockuot
- locokut
- lokcout
- olckout
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lockout - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).