LACMA
/ˈlæk.mə/
"lacma" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“LACMA” is uncommon English (frequency #63,752 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,752
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acronym of Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lacma · LACMA · English
LACMA · rank #63,752 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,752
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH laddie
Nearest frequency peer: laddie (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “LACMA”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Koons
Koons
36,255 corpus weight
- Kubiak
Kubiak
36,252 corpus weight
- LACMA
LACMA
36,249 corpus weight
- laddie
laddie
36,248 corpus weight
- lamppost
lamppost
36,245 corpus weight
- lecherous
lecherous
36,243 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “LACMA” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | LACMA |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈlæk.mə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,752 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “LACMA” in English
Rare enough to double-check
LACMA is uncommon English at frequency #63,752 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈlæk.mə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Acronym of Los Angeles County Museum of Art.".
LACMA doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is LACMA, spelled L-A-C-M-A.
Definition
- 1Acronym of Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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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