lamin
"lamin" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lamin” is uncommon English (frequency #86,449 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,449
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of a class of fibrous proteins that provide structure, and regulate transcription in a cell nucleus
Corpus desk
Index EN-lamin · lamin · English
lamin · rank #86,449 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,449
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lamellar
Nearest frequency peer: lamellar (-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 “lamin”
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 “lamin” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lamin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lamin” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lamin is uncommon English at frequency #86,449 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any of a class of fibrous proteins that provide structure, and regulate transcription in a cell nucleus".
lamin has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From lamina + -in, from their involvement in the nuclear lamina. The correct English form is lamin, spelled L-A-M-I-N.
Definition
- 1Any of a class of fibrous proteins that provide structure, and regulate transcription in a cell nucleus
Etymology
From lamina + -in, from their involvement in the nuclear lamina.
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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