lathered
"lathered" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lathered” is uncommon English (frequency #90,648 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,648
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Drunk.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lathered · lathered · English
lathered · rank #90,648 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,648
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lapidary
Nearest frequency peer: lapidary (-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 “lathered”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Lansley
Lansley
9,358 corpus weight
- Laois
Laois
9,357 corpus weight
- laparotomy
laparotomy
9,356 corpus weight
- lapidary
lapidary
9,355 corpus weight
- lathered
lathered
9,353 corpus weight
- LBO
LBO
9,349 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “lathered” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lathered |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lathered” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lathered is uncommon English at frequency #90,648 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Drunk.".
Zero misspellings are on record for lathered in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is lathered, spelled L-A-T-H-E-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1Drunk.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lathered appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Well it would have been a quiet evening but of course Freddie got lathered pretty quick for a Saturday night.
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
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).