lose one's mind
/luːz wʌnz maɪnd/
"lose-one-s-mind" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lose one's mind” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To become frustrated, angry.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lose-one-s-mind · lose one's mind · English
lose one's mind · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lose one's mind |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /luːz wʌnz maɪnd/ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lose one's mind” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lose one's mind is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed /luːz wʌnz maɪnd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for lose one's mind in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is lose one's mind, spelled L-O-S-E- -O-N-E-'-S- -M-I-N-D.
Definition
- 1To become frustrated, angry.
- 2To become crazy, insane, mad, psychotic.
This word in other languages
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.