locks
/lɑks/noun, verb
locks is spelled L-O-C-K-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 8.7 times per million words in written English, the 7,797th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, locks means “A head of hair; tresses” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in locks?
| Letters | 5: L-O-C-K-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 8.7 times per million words; the 7,797th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is locks?
Locks appears 8.7 times per million words in written English, the 7,797th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce locks?
- UK /lɒks/
- US /lɑks/
Locks has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-locks.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with locks
Sounds like: lox (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with locks?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as locks from its last stressed vowel (/ɑks/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does locks mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A head of hair; tresses.
- 2
colloquialDreadlocks.
- 3
plural of lock
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of lock
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Locks in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense count of hair:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | mecha |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.