laksa
"laksa" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“laksa” is uncommon English (frequency #98,349 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,349
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A spicy noodle stew from Indonesia or Malaysia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-laksa · laksa · English
laksa · rank #98,349 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,349
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH laggard
Nearest frequency peer: laggard (-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 “laksa”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- lactone
lactone
1,655 corpus weight
- Ladin
Ladin
1,654 corpus weight
- laggard
laggard
1,653 corpus weight
- laksa
laksa
1,652 corpus weight
- lamba
lamba
1,651 corpus weight
- lampreys
lampreys
1,649 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “laksa” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laksa |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “laksa” in English
Rare enough to double-check
laksa is uncommon English at frequency #98,349 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A spicy noodle stew from Indonesia or Malaysia.".
Zero misspellings are on record for laksa in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Malay laksa. The correct English form is laksa, spelled L-A-K-S-A.
Definition
- 1A spicy noodle stew from Indonesia or Malaysia.
Etymology
From Malay laksa.
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
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).