Lalique
"lalique" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lalique” is uncommon English (frequency #96,150 among 16,425 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,150
- frequency rank, English
- 16,425
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A style of Art Nouveau glassware and jewelry/jewellery; properly, that from the Lalique factory.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lalique · Lalique · English
Lalique · rank #96,150 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,150
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 16,425
- PHOTO-FINISH landman
Nearest frequency peer: landman (+5 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 “Lalique”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Kuantan
Kuantan
3,858 corpus weight
- Lalique
Lalique
3,851 corpus weight
- landman
landman
3,846 corpus weight
- lapsing
lapsing
3,844 corpus weight
- Laserdisc
Laserdisc
3,843 corpus weight
- Lebensraum
Lebensraum
3,842 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Lalique” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lalique |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Lalique” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Lalique is uncommon English at frequency #96,150 among 16,425 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A style of Art Nouveau glassware and jewelry/jewellery; properly, that from the Lalique factory.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Lalique, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: The surname of René Lalique, French designer. The correct English form is Lalique, spelled L-A-L-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1A style of Art Nouveau glassware and jewelry/jewellery; properly, that from the Lalique factory.
Etymology
The surname of René Lalique, French designer.
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 7 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.