Largs
"largs" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Largs” is uncommon English (frequency #76,053 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,053
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A town on the Firth of Clyde in North Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS2059).
Corpus desk
Index EN-largs · Largs · English
Largs · rank #76,053 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,053
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH laters
Nearest frequency peer: laters (+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 “Largs”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Kutch
Kutch
23,952 corpus weight
- Lahaina
Lahaina
23,950 corpus weight
- Largs
Largs
23,948 corpus weight
- laters
laters
23,947 corpus weight
- Lebeau
Lebeau
23,946 corpus weight
- Leghorn
Leghorn
23,945 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Largs” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Largs |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Largs” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Largs is uncommon English at frequency #76,053 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Largs has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Largs, spelled L-A-R-G-S.
Definition
- 1A town on the Firth of Clyde in North Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS2059).
- 2A suburb of Newcastle in the Maitland council area, New South Wales, Australia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Largs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The hourly EMU service means that Largs, arguably an underrated seaside destination, is easy enough to reach from Glasgow for a day out.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).