Lampedusa
/ˌlæmpɪˈduːzə/
"lampedusa" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lampedusa” is uncommon English (frequency #83,439 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,439
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The largest island of the Italian Pelagie Islands, located in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunisia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lampedusa · Lampedusa · English
Lampedusa · rank #83,439 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,439
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lalla
Nearest frequency peer: lalla (-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 “Lampedusa”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Kyles
Kyles
16,567 corpus weight
- Laetitia
Laetitia
16,564 corpus weight
- lalla
lalla
16,563 corpus weight
- Lampedusa
Lampedusa
16,562 corpus weight
- Lancastrian
Lancastrian
16,560 corpus weight
- Lapp
Lapp
16,558 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Lampedusa” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lampedusa |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌlæmpɪˈduːzə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Lampedusa” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Lampedusa is uncommon English at frequency #83,439 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˌlæmpɪˈduːzə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The largest island of the Italian Pelagie Islands, located in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunisia.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Lampedusa in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. 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: From Italian Lampedusa, from Latin Lopadusa, from Ancient Greek Λοπαδοῦσσα (Lopadoûssa). Compare Sicilian Lampidusa. The correct English form is Lampedusa, spelled L-A-M-P-E-D-U-S-A.
Definition
- 1The largest island of the Italian Pelagie Islands, located in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunisia.
Etymology
From Italian Lampedusa, from Latin Lopadusa, from Ancient Greek Λοπαδοῦσσα (Lopadoûssa). Compare Sicilian Lampidusa.
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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