lose weight
"lose-weight" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lose weight” 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
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To become less heavy or obese.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lose weight |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lose weight” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for lose weight is 11 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 become less heavy or obese.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lose weight, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is lose weight, spelled L-O-S-E- -W-E-I-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1To become less heavy or obese.
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.
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Using “lose weight”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-O-S-E- -W-E-I-G-H-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.