Lancelot
/ˈlæn.sə.lɒt/
"lancelot" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lancelot” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #29,714. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,714
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One of the Knights of the Round Table, a lover of Guinevere.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lancelot · Lancelot · English
Lancelot · rank #29,714 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #29,714
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lard
Nearest frequency peer: lard (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Lancelot”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Kirsty
Kirsty
70,291 corpus weight
- KORS
KORS
70,290 corpus weight
- Lancelot
Lancelot
70,287 corpus weight
- lard
lard
70,286 corpus weight
- Leblanc
Leblanc
70,285 corpus weight
- leeway
leeway
70,284 corpus weight
What this shows “Lancelot” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lancelot |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈlæn.sə.lɒt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Lancelot”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Lancelot (IPA /ˈlæn.sə.lɒt/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #29,714 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lancelot, with forms such as "alncelot", "lacnelot", and "lanccelot". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "lancet", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English Launcelot, from Old French Lancelot, from Frankish *Lanzo, hypocoristic form of names beginning in *Land-, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), and diminutive Old French endings -el and -ot. Related to Old English Landbeorht (modern Engl… The correct English form is Lancelot, spelled L-A-N-C-E-L-O-T.
Definition
- 1One of the Knights of the Round Table, a lover of Guinevere.
- 2A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- 3A surname.
- 4A ghost town in the Mid North region, South Australia, Australia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lancelot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"What's the first name?" - - - "I have a horrible feeling that it's Lancelot!" "Good God!" said Archie. "It couldn't really be that, could it?" Archie looked grave. He hated to give pain, but he felt he must be honest. "It might," he said. "People give their children all sorts of rummy names. My second name's Tracy. And I have a pal in England who was chr…
Etymology
From Middle English Launcelot, from Old French Lancelot, from Frankish *Lanzo, hypocoristic form of names beginning in *Land-, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), and diminutive Old French endings -el and -ot. Related to Old English Landbeorht (modern English Lambert).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alncelot
- lacnelot
- lanccelot
- lancellot
- lancelott
- lancelto
- lanceolt
- lancleot
- laneclot
- lanncelot
- llancelot
- lnacelot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lancelot - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).