louts
/laʊts/
"louts" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“louts” is uncommon English (frequency #88,552 among 16,425 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,552
- frequency rank, English
- 16,425
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of lout
Corpus desk
Index EN-louts · louts · English
louts · rank #88,552 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,552
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 16,425
- PHOTO-FINISH Loveridge
Nearest frequency peer: Loveridge (+1 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “louts”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- loanee
loanee
11,455 corpus weight
- lookit
lookit
11,452 corpus weight
- loonie
loonie
11,451 corpus weight
- louts
louts
11,449 corpus weight
- Loveridge
Loveridge
11,448 corpus weight
- Lundquist
Lundquist
11,445 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “louts” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | louts |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /laʊts/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “louts” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
louts is uncommon English at frequency #88,552 among 16,425 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /laʊts/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of lout".
No misspelling variants are generated for louts in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 louts, spelled L-O-U-T-S.
Definition
- 1plural of lout
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.