Lavery
"lavery" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lavery” is uncommon English (frequency #57,509 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,509
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Irish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lavery · Lavery · English
Lavery · rank #57,509 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,509
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH laryngeal
Nearest frequency peer: laryngeal (-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 “Lavery”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Lanzarote
Lanzarote
42,495 corpus weight
- laryngeal
laryngeal
42,493 corpus weight
- Lavery
Lavery
42,492 corpus weight
- LBW
LBW
42,490 corpus weight
- leaguer
leaguer
42,489 corpus weight
- leant
leant
42,488 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Lavery” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lavery |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Lavery” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Lavery is uncommon English at frequency #57,509 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Irish.".
Lavery doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Labhradha (“descendant of Labhraidh”), a byname from labhraidh (“spokesman”), from labhair (“to speak”). The correct English form is Lavery, spelled L-A-V-E-R-Y.
Definition
- 1A surname from Irish.
Etymology
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Labhradha (“descendant of Labhraidh”), a byname from labhraidh (“spokesman”), from labhair (“to speak”).
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).