lose one's lunch
"lose-one-s-lunch" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lose one's lunch” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To vomit, throw up.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lose one's lunch |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lose one's lunch” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for lose one's lunch is 16 letters long, classified as a verb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "To vomit, throw up.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lose one's lunch, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is lose one's lunch, spelled L-O-S-E- -O-N-E-'-S- -L-U-N-C-H.
Definition
- 1To vomit, throw up.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “lose one's lunch”
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- The one correct English spelling is L-O-S-E- -O-N-E-'-S- -L-U-N-C-H - 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.