lamina
/ˈlæm.ɪ.nə/
"lamina" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lamina” is uncommon English (frequency #56,858 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,858
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A thin layer, plate, or scale of material.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lamina · lamina · English
lamina · rank #56,858 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,858
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH ladyboy
Nearest frequency peer: ladyboy (-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 “lamina”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- koa
koa
43,148 corpus weight
- ladyboy
ladyboy
43,144 corpus weight
- lamina
lamina
43,143 corpus weight
- Lanark
Lanark
43,142 corpus weight
- Lapierre
Lapierre
43,139 corpus weight
- Lapointe
Lapointe
43,138 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “lamina” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lamina |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈlæm.ɪ.nə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lamina” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
lamina is uncommon English at frequency #56,858 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈlæm.ɪ.nə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for lamina, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin lāmina (“a thin piece of metal, wood, marble; a plate, leaf, layer”). Doublet of lame. The correct English form is lamina, spelled L-A-M-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1A thin layer, plate, or scale of material.
- 2A thin layer, plate, or scale of material.
- 3A thin layer, plate, or scale of material.
- 4A thin layer, plate, or scale of material.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lāmina (“a thin piece of metal, wood, marble; a plate, leaf, layer”). Doublet of lame.
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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