lady's maid
"lady-s-maid" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lady's maid” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female servant employed by an upper-class woman to attend to her personal needs.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lady-s-maid · lady's maid · English
lady's maid · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lady's maid |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lady's maid” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lady's maid is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female servant employed by an upper-class woman to attend to her personal needs.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for lady's maid, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is lady's maid, spelled L-A-D-Y-'-S- -M-A-I-D.
Definition
- 1A female servant employed by an upper-class woman to attend to her personal needs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lady's maid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonyms: chamberer, chambermaid (chamberer sense) (both broadly synonymous)
A pretty Girl, the Lady’s Maid, Who all her Dress in Order Laid, Behind her Mistress simp’ring stood, And rais’d the youthful ’Squires Blood.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.