lockscreen
"lockscreen" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lockscreen” is uncommon English (frequency #77,873 among 16,425 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,873
- frequency rank, English
- 16,425
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Alternative form of lock screen.
| 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) |
Where “lockscreen” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
lockscreen is uncommon English at frequency #77,873 among 16,425 “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.
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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Using “lockscreen”
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- The one correct English spelling is L-O-C-K-S-C-R-E-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.