latakia
/latəˈkiːə/
"latakia" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“latakia” is uncommon English (frequency #58,144 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,144
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A type of pungent Turkish tobacco.
Corpus desk
Index EN-latakia · latakia · English
latakia · rank #58,144 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,144
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Kuznetsov
Nearest frequency peer: Kuznetsov (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “latakia”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- knightly
knightly
41,861 corpus weight
- Kuznetsov
Kuznetsov
41,859 corpus weight
- latakia
latakia
41,857 corpus weight
- leptin
leptin
41,855 corpus weight
- libtard
libtard
41,853 corpus weight
- likenesses
likenesses
41,852 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “latakia” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | latakia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /latəˈkiːə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “latakia” in English
Rare enough to double-check
latakia is uncommon English at frequency #58,144 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /latəˈkiːə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A type of pungent Turkish tobacco.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for latakia, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latakia (“the Syrian port from where the tobacco is shipped, and near where it is produced”), from Arabic اللَاذِقِيَّة (al-lāḏiqiyya). The correct English form is latakia, spelled L-A-T-A-K-I-A.
Definition
- 1A type of pungent Turkish tobacco.
Etymology
From Latakia (“the Syrian port from where the tobacco is shipped, and near where it is produced”), from Arabic اللَاذِقِيَّة (al-lāḏiqiyya).
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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