# lamb

> English word · Noun · IPA /læm/ · frequency rank #6,930

## Definitions
1. A young sheep.
2. A young goat; a kid.
3. The flesh of a lamb used as food; (sometimes loosely) the flesh of a sheep of any age used as food.
4. A person who is meek, docile, and easily led.
5. Lambskin.
6. A simple, unsophisticated person.
7. One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.
8. A fan of American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer Mariah Carey (born 1969).

## Etymology
From Middle English lamb, from Old English lamb, from Proto-West Germanic *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁l̥h₁onbʰos, enlargement of *h₁elh₁én, ultimately from *h₁el-.
See also Dutch lam, German Lamm, Bavarian Lamperl, Danish lam, Swedish lamm, Finnish lammas, Scottish Gaelic lon (“elk”), Ancient Greek ἔλαφος (élaphos, “red deer”). More at elk.

## Easily confused with
- **lb** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lamb-vs-lb)
- **LM** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lamb-vs-lm)
- **law** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lamb-vs-law)
- **lay** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lamb-vs-lay)
- **las** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lamb-vs-las)
- **lap** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lamb-vs-lap)
- **lib** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lamb-vs-lib)
- **LAN** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lamb-vs-lan)
- **lax** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lamb-vs-lax)
- **lim** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lamb-vs-lim)
- **Lao** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lamb-vs-lao)
- **Lau** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lamb-vs-lau)
- **LAT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lamb-vs-lat)
- **lob** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lamb-vs-lob)
- **LEM** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lamb-vs-lem)
- **lar** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lamb-vs-lar)
- **lum** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lamb-vs-lum)
- **lav** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lamb-vs-lav)
- **last** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lamb-vs-last)
- **late** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lamb-vs-late)

## Common misspellings (6)
`almb`, `labm`, `lambb`, `lammb`, `llamb`, `lmab`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/lamb