lamba
"lamba" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lamba” is uncommon English (frequency #98,350 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,350
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The traditional garment worn by men and women in Madagascar, consisting of a rectangular length of cloth wrapped around the body.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lamba · lamba · English
lamba · rank #98,350 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,350
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH laksa
Nearest frequency peer: laksa (-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 “lamba”
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 “lamba” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lamba |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lamba” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lamba is uncommon English at frequency #98,350 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The traditional garment worn by men and women in Madagascar, consisting of a rectangular length of cloth wrapped around the body.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lamba, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Malagasy (Highlands dialect). The correct English form is lamba, spelled L-A-M-B-A.
Definition
- 1The traditional garment worn by men and women in Madagascar, consisting of a rectangular length of cloth wrapped around the body.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lamba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] the Lances flew briskly at one another; one of which went thorow my Lamber, and scratch’d me […]
I was, from the first, surprised by the reverent manner in which public worship is conducted—especially by the outward respect shown during prayer. Almost everyone has his face covered with the folds of the lamba, and even young children seem instinctively to know that prayer is a solemn act, and often lie at full length on the ground perfectly still, wit…
Etymology
From Malagasy (Highlands dialect).
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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