lanceolate
"lanceolate" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lanceolate” is uncommon English (frequency #58,804 among 16,425 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,804
- frequency rank, English
- 16,425
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Having the general shape of a lance; much longer than wide, with the widest part lower than the middle and a pointed apex.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lanceolate · lanceolate · English
lanceolate · rank #58,804 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,804
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 16,425
- PHOTO-FINISH leashes
Nearest frequency peer: leashes (+3 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “lanceolate”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- knapsack
knapsack
41,204 corpus weight
- Kovac
Kovac
41,202 corpus weight
- lanceolate
lanceolate
41,197 corpus weight
- leashes
leashes
41,194 corpus weight
- Lebedev
Lebedev
41,193 corpus weight
- lier
lier
41,191 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “lanceolate” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lanceolate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #58,804 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lanceolate” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
lanceolate is uncommon English at frequency #58,804 among 16,425 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for lanceolate in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin lanceolatus. The correct English form is lanceolate, spelled L-A-N-C-E-O-L-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Having the general shape of a lance; much longer than wide, with the widest part lower than the middle and a pointed apex.
- 2Of a class of knapped stone points, made without a stem, shoulders, notches, or other features that aid in attachment to a shaft.
Etymology
From Latin lanceolatus.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.