Lacey
"lacey" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lacey” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #20,405. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,405
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Norman habitational surname from Old French from a place Lassy in Calvados.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lacey · Lacey · English
Lacey · rank #20,405 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,405
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH kun
Nearest frequency peer: kun (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Lacey”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Kristin
Kristin
79,598 corpus weight
- kun
kun
79,597 corpus weight
- Lacey
Lacey
79,596 corpus weight
- Lao
Lao
79,595 corpus weight
- latent
latent
79,594 corpus weight
- Lau
Lau
79,593 corpus weight
What this shows “Lacey” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lacey |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,405 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Lacey”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Lacey, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #20,405 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lacey, with forms such as "alcey", "laccey", and "laceyy". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lay", "ley", "late", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Lacey, spelled L-A-C-E-Y.
Definition
- 1A Norman habitational surname from Old French from a place Lassy in Calvados.
- 2A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
- 3A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
- 4A placename
- 5A placename
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lacey appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Where'd you get a prissy name like Lacey from, anyway?" "I don't know," Cash tells Alice, keeping his hands on the wheel and his eye trained ahead. "It was Alma thought of it. I think she liked the TV show with the lady cops. Lacey and somebody."
Lacey Thrush died last night. Isn't that a name? Her mother was a Lacey. They were an old family here, but she was the last of the Laceys, and the Thrushes went on to California.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alcey
- laccey
- laceyy
- lacye
- laecy
- lcaey
- llacey
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lacey - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Lacey", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).