lockscreen
"lockscreen" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lockscreen” is uncommon English (frequency #77,873 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,873
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of lock screen.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lockscreen · lockscreen · English
lockscreen · rank #77,873 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,873
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH loggerhead
Nearest frequency peer: loggerhead (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “lockscreen”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Lipschitz
Lipschitz
22,134 corpus weight
- Livorno
Livorno
22,131 corpus weight
- lockscreen
lockscreen
22,128 corpus weight
- loggerhead
loggerhead
22,127 corpus weight
- Loretto
Loretto
22,124 corpus weight
- lounger
lounger
22,123 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “lockscreen” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lockscreen |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,873 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lockscreen” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lockscreen is uncommon English at frequency #77,873 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of lock screen.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lockscreen, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is lockscreen, spelled L-O-C-K-S-C-R-E-E-N.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of lock screen.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lockscreen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She picked up her phone and stared at the lockscreen.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).