laith
"laith" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“laith” is uncommon English (frequency #99,477 among 16,425 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,477
- frequency rank, English
- 16,425
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - shed, barn
Corpus desk
Index EN-laith · laith · English
laith · rank #99,477 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,477
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 16,425
- PHOTO-FINISH Lahti
Nearest frequency peer: Lahti (-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 “laith”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Kwinana
Kwinana
530 corpus weight
- Lahti
Lahti
525 corpus weight
- laith
laith
524 corpus weight
- landholder
landholder
521 corpus weight
- larg
larg
519 corpus weight
- latitudinal
latitudinal
517 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “laith” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laith |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “laith” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
laith is uncommon English at frequency #99,477 among 16,425 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "shed, barn".
No generated misspelling entries exist for laith in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English lathe, from Old English hladan or Old English hleadan, or from or potentially reinforced by Old Norse hlaða (“barn, storehouse”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaþǭ (“loader”), from *hlaþaną (“to lade, load”). Cognate with Icelandic hlaða (“barn… The correct English form is laith, spelled L-A-I-T-H.
Definition
- 1shed, barn
Etymology
From Middle English lathe, from Old English hladan or Old English hleadan, or from or potentially reinforced by Old Norse hlaða (“barn, storehouse”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaþǭ (“loader”), from *hlaþaną (“to lade, load”). Cognate with Icelandic hlaða (“barn”), Swedish lada (“barn”), Danish lade (“barn”).
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
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.