lambdoid
adjective, noun
lambdoid is spelled L-A-M-B-D-O-I-D. The wrong spelling people search most is lamboid: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Lambdoid is an adjective meaning “Shaped like the Greek letter lambda”.
How many letters and syllables are in lambdoid?
| Letters | 8: L-A-M-B-D-O-I-D |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 85 million words; the 293,966th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, lamboid, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell lambdoid?
Lambdoid is spelled L-A-M-B-D-O-I-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for lambdoid in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is lambdoid?
Lambdoid appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Forms of lambdoid
- lambdoids plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does lambdoid mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Shaped like the Greek letter lambda
noun
- 1
The lambdoid suture.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Lambdoid in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense shaped like the Greek letter lambda:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | lambdoideo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does lambdoid come from?
Borrowed from French lambdoïde, from the New Latin lambdoīdēs, from the Ancient Greek λαβδοειδής (labdoeidḗs).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).