look out

/\lʊk ˈaʊt\/ verb

Letters

8 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

look out is aFrenchverb. It means: Prendre garde, agir avec vigilance. Pronounced \lʊk ˈaʊt\.

Key facts for look out
PropertyValue
Headwordlook out
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\lʊk ˈaʊt\
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

look out is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for look out is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lʊk ˈaʊt\. 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: "Prendre garde, agir avec vigilance.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for look out in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is look out, spelled L-O-O-K- -O-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prendre garde, agir avec vigilance.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "look out"?
"look out" is spelled L-O-O-K- -O-U-T. The IPA pronunciation is \lʊk ˈaʊt\.
What does "look out" mean?
As a verb, "look out" means: Prendre garde, agir avec vigilance.
How do you pronounce "look out"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "look out" is \lʊk ˈaʊt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "look out" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.