watchout
noun
watchout is a noun meaning “A lookout; a person who stands guard watching for something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-A-T-C-H-O-U-T, and it appears about once in every 33 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of watchout is watchouts.
What does watchout mean?
noun
- 1
A lookout; a person who stands guard watching for something.
- 2
Any potentially hazardous condition or situation that may make a fire more dangerous.
A change in wind direction is a watchout.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of watchout
- watchouts plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is watchout?
Watchout appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th 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).
Where does watchout come from?
Deverbal from watch out.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).