laneway
"laneway" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“laneway” is uncommon English (frequency #77,847 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,847
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A narrow roadway; a lane
Corpus desk
Index EN-laneway · laneway · English
laneway · rank #77,847 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,847
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Landover
Nearest frequency peer: Landover (-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 “laneway”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- lamer
lamer
22,157 corpus weight
- Landover
Landover
22,155 corpus weight
- laneway
laneway
22,154 corpus weight
- Lansdale
Lansdale
22,153 corpus weight
- Lanzhou
Lanzhou
22,152 corpus weight
- Larnaca
Larnaca
22,150 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “laneway” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laneway |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,847 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “laneway” in English
Rare enough to double-check
laneway is uncommon English at frequency #77,847 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A narrow roadway; a lane".
laneway has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From lane + way. The correct English form is laneway, spelled L-A-N-E-W-A-Y.
Definition
- 1A narrow roadway; a lane
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how laneway appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We pulled into a laneway at 496 Evans and drove to the back[…].
Etymology
From lane + way.
Synonyms
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).