lamia
/ˈleɪmɪə/
"lamia" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lamia” is uncommon English (frequency #61,580 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,580
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A monster preying upon human beings, who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lamia · lamia · English
lamia · rank #61,580 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,580
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Kuiper
Nearest frequency peer: Kuiper (-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 “lamia”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Koizumi
Koizumi
38,425 corpus weight
- Kuiper
Kuiper
38,422 corpus weight
- lamia
lamia
38,421 corpus weight
- laryngitis
laryngitis
38,420 corpus weight
- Lashkar
Lashkar
38,419 corpus weight
- LDA
LDA
38,417 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “lamia” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lamia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈleɪmɪə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,580 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lamia” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lamia is uncommon English at frequency #61,580 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈleɪmɪə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A monster preying upon human beings, who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lamia, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin lamia, from Ancient Greek Λάμια (Lámia). The correct English form is lamia, spelled L-A-M-I-A.
Definition
- 1A monster preying upon human beings, who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lamia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Coordinate term: naga
Apollonius […] by some probable conjectures, found her out to be a serpent, a lamia, and that all her furniture was like Tantalus' gold described by Homer, no substance, but mere illusions.
Etymology
From Latin lamia, from Ancient Greek Λάμια (Lámia).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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