landlady
/ˈlæn(d)ˌleɪ.di/
"landlady" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“landlady” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,890. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,890
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female landlord.
Corpus desk
Index EN-landlady · landlady · English
landlady · rank #32,890 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,890
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Laila
Nearest frequency peer: Laila (-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 “landlady”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Klingon
Klingon
67,115 corpus weight
- knoll
knoll
67,114 corpus weight
- Laila
Laila
67,112 corpus weight
- landlady
landlady
67,111 corpus weight
- larceny
larceny
67,110 corpus weight
- lavatory
lavatory
67,109 corpus weight
What this shows “landlady” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | landlady |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈlæn(d)ˌleɪ.di/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “landlady”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around landlady (IPA /ˈlæn(d)ˌleɪ.di/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,890 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A female landlord.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for landlady, with forms such as "alndlady", "ladnlady", and "landaldy". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From land + lady. The correct English form is landlady, spelled L-A-N-D-L-A-D-Y.
Definition
- 1A female landlord.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how landlady appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.
Yet Clacton, like every other station at a big seaside resort, is bedevilled by the traditional insistence of boarding-house landladies that their clients must arrive on Saturday before lunch and leave on Saturday after breakfast.
Etymology
From land + lady.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alndlady
- ladnlady
- landaldy
- landdlady
- landladdy
- landladyy
- landlayd
- landlday
- landllady
- lanldady
- lanndlady
- llandlady
- lnadlady
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of landlady - 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
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).