Lara
/ˈlɑː.ɹə/
"lara" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lara” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,155. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,155
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Corpus desk
Index EN-lara · Lara · English
Lara · rank #14,155 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,155
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Kylie
Nearest frequency peer: Kylie (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Lara”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Kaiser
Kaiser
85,850 corpus weight
- kettle
kettle
85,849 corpus weight
- Kylie
Kylie
85,848 corpus weight
- Lara
Lara
85,846 corpus weight
- lax
lax
85,844 corpus weight
- lest
lest
85,843 corpus weight
What this shows “Lara” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lara |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈlɑː.ɹə/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Lara”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Lara (IPA /ˈlɑː.ɹə/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,155 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lara, with forms such as "alra", "laar", and "larra". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "LR", "law", "lay", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Anglicized from Russian Ла́ра (Lára), a Russian pet form of Larissa, known from the novel (1957) and film (1965) Dr Zhivago. The correct English form is Lara, spelled L-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1A suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia
- 2A female given name from Russian or Ukrainian.
- 3A surname.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lara appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Long after the divorce, Moran maintained the habit of giving her name as Lara to the Starbucks baristas. She had once met another Lara at Logan airport, both of them waiting for their coffees, both stepping forward when summoned. The other Lara said her parents had gone through a period of thinking that everything Russian was holy,and had named her Lariss…
"If we live in a country where so many people could elect Donald Trump, then that's not a country I want to live in," 17-year-old Lara Godoff told the Associated Press.
Etymology
Anglicized from Russian Ла́ра (Lára), a Russian pet form of Larissa, known from the novel (1957) and film (1965) Dr Zhivago.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alra
- laar
- larra
- llara
- lraa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lara - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Lara", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).