lamellar
"lamellar" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lamellar” is uncommon English (frequency #86,448 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,448
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or pertaining to a lamella, plate-like, flat and thin.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lamellar · lamellar · English
lamellar · rank #86,448 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,448
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lambasting
Nearest frequency peer: lambasting (-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 “lamellar”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Lainey
Lainey
13,555 corpus weight
- lambasting
lambasting
13,554 corpus weight
- lamellar
lamellar
13,553 corpus weight
- lamin
lamin
13,552 corpus weight
- landsman
landsman
13,551 corpus weight
- Leanna
Leanna
13,549 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “lamellar” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lamellar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,448 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lamellar” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lamellar is uncommon English at frequency #86,448 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of or pertaining to a lamella, plate-like, flat and thin.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lamellar, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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: Compare French lamellaire. The correct English form is lamellar, spelled L-A-M-E-L-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1Of or pertaining to a lamella, plate-like, flat and thin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lamellar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Like scale armor (see cat, no. 38), lamellar armor was widely used in the ancient world, possibly originating in the Near East and spreading rapidly throughout Asia. Lamellar differs from scale armor in two principal ways.
The term “lamellar armor” refers to a type of armor made up of horizontal rows of small overlapping plates joined by leather lacing. The individual plates are referred to as lamella (singular) and lamellae (plural), literally meaning thin plates or ...
Etymology
Compare French lamellaire.
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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