loosehead
noun
loosehead is a noun meaning “prop who plays on the left hand side of the front row of the scrum, such that in a scrum, their head is not tightly bound (unlike that of the…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-O-O-S-E-H-E-A-D, and it appears about once in every 31 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of loosehead is looseheads.
What does loosehead mean?
noun
- 1
prop who plays on the left hand side of the front row of the scrum, such that in a scrum, their head is not tightly bound (unlike that of the tighthead)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of loosehead
- looseheads plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is loosehead?
Loosehead appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd 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).
Loosehead in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense rugby player:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | pilier gauche |
| German | linker Pfeiler |
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.
Where does loosehead come from?
From loose + head.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).