Lapham
"lapham" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lapham” is uncommon English (frequency #87,478 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,478
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lapham · Lapham · English
Lapham · rank #87,478 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,478
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Landsberg
Nearest frequency peer: Landsberg (-2 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 “Lapham”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Kure
Kure
12,529 corpus weight
- Landsberg
Landsberg
12,525 corpus weight
- Lapham
Lapham
12,523 corpus weight
- Laverty
Laverty
12,521 corpus weight
- leddy
leddy
12,519 corpus weight
- Leiva
Leiva
12,517 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Lapham” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lapham |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,478 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Lapham” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Lapham is uncommon English at frequency #87,478 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Lapham in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Perhaps a variant of Lopham. The correct English form is Lapham, spelled L-A-P-H-A-M.
Definition
- 1A surname.
- 2An unincorporated community in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.
Etymology
Perhaps a variant of Lopham.
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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