lindvsLundyTell them apart

Quick tell: lind is a noun, Lundy is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“lind” is a noun and “Lundy” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#36,225
“lind” frequency rank
#44,314
“Lundy” frequency rank
80539
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature lind Lundy
Definition The lime tree, or linden tree. An island in the Bristol Channel, off the coast of Devon, England, and included in Torridge district (OS grid ref SS14).

Letter map: lind vs Lundy

Shared letters muted; letters that set lind and Lundy apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. lind runs 4 letters (CVCC) against Lundy's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
lind
5 ch
Lundy

Part-of-speech tell for lind / Lundy

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: lind is anoun and Lundyaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 80539, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

lind is recorded at frequency rank #36,225, classified as anoun, pronounced /lɪnd/. Lundy is at rank #44,314, tagged as aname.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 80539, this pair ranks #19,586 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of lind vs Lundy

Shared letters: dln. Private to "lind": i. Private to "Lundy": uy.

"lind" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "Lundy" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • lind ← ilnd · lidn · lindd · linnd · llind · lnid
  • Lundy ← llundy · lnudy · ludny · lunddy · lundyy · lunndy · lunyd · ulndy

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "lind" for "Lundy" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "lind" is a noun and "Lundy" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "lind" or "Lundy" show up more?
"lind" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #36,225 in our English list, against #44,314 for "Lundy". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "lind" and "Lundy".

  • Full dictionary entry for "lind" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Lundy" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #19,586 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "lind" and "Lundy" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Laney vs Lundy". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #19,586 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list