latakia
/latəˈkiːə/
"latakia" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“latakia” is uncommon English (frequency #58,144 among 16,425 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,144
- frequency rank, English
- 16,425
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A type of pungent Turkish tobacco.
| 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) |
Where “latakia” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
latakia is uncommon English at frequency #58,144 among 16,425 “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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Using “latakia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-A-T-A-K-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.