lansing
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "lansing", 7-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "lansing" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "lansing" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
Lansing is aEnglishname. It means: The capital city of Michigan, United States, in Ingham County. Pronounced /ˈlænsɪŋ/. Often confused with losing and laying.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lansing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | /ˈlænsɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for Lansing is 7 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈlænsɪŋ/. Corpus data places it at rank #20,686 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for Lansing, with forms such as "alnsing", "lanisng", and "lannsing". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "losing", "laying", "lining", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is Lansing, spelled L-A-N-S-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The capital city of Michigan, United States, in Ingham County.
- 2Other places in the United States:
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- 13A neighborhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- 14A surname.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alnsing,lanisng,lannsing,lansign,lansingg,lansinng,lansnig,lanssing,lasning,llansing,lnasing
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Lansing
Misspelling Variants of "Lansing"
Frequency rank: #20,686 in English
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