lagan
/ˈlæɡən/
"lagan" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lagan” is uncommon English (frequency #80,603 among 16,425 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,603
- frequency rank, English
- 16,425
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Goods or materials found or left on the sea floor, attached to a floating marker that indicates ownership.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lagan · lagan · English
lagan · rank #80,603 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,603
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 16,425
- PHOTO-FINISH laffer
Nearest frequency peer: laffer (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “lagan”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Krabi
Krabi
19,402 corpus weight
- Kur
Kur
19,400 corpus weight
- laffer
laffer
19,399 corpus weight
- lagan
lagan
19,398 corpus weight
- Lalita
Lalita
19,397 corpus weight
- Langevin
Langevin
19,393 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “lagan” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lagan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈlæɡən/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lagan” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
lagan is uncommon English at frequency #80,603 among 16,425 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈlæɡən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Goods or materials found or left on the sea floor, attached to a floating marker that indicates ownership.".
lagan doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Per Littré, from Old French lagan, from Medieval Latin laga maris (“law of the sea”), from Old Norse lǫg (“law”) and Latin maris (“of the sea”) The correct English form is lagan, spelled L-A-G-A-N.
Definition
- 1Goods or materials found or left on the sea floor, attached to a floating marker that indicates ownership.
Etymology
Per Littré, from Old French lagan, from Medieval Latin laga maris (“law of the sea”), from Old Norse lǫg (“law”) and Latin maris (“of the sea”)
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.