Lassa
"lassa" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lassa” is uncommon English (frequency #82,478 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,478
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Archaic form of Lhasa.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lassa · Lassa · English
Lassa · rank #82,478 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,478
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH larkspur
Nearest frequency peer: larkspur (-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 “Lassa”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- lakin
lakin
17,526 corpus weight
- Lamotte
Lamotte
17,525 corpus weight
- larkspur
larkspur
17,524 corpus weight
- Lassa
Lassa
17,523 corpus weight
- leafing
leafing
17,522 corpus weight
- lectionary
lectionary
17,521 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Lassa” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lassa |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,478 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Lassa” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Lassa is uncommon English at frequency #82,478 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Lassa in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is Lassa, spelled L-A-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1Archaic form of Lhasa.
- 2Acronym of Latin American Society of South Australia.
- 3A town in Borno state, Nigeria.
- 4A city in the Kara Region of Togo
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lassa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It was first described in the town of Lassa, Nigeria in 1969.
Luka. The Gospel According to St. Luke in Margi. Prepared by The Church of the Brethren Mission. Lassa, Nigeria.
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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