Lavinia
"lavinia" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lavinia” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #43,748 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #43,748
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The daughter of Latinus and wife of Aeneas.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lavinia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #43,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Lavinia” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Lavinia is 7 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #43,748 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lavinia, with forms such as "alvinia", "laivnia", and "laviina". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Latina", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Latin Lavinia, of obscure meaning. Lavinium was a town in ancient Latium. The correct English form is Lavinia, spelled L-A-V-I-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1The daughter of Latinus and wife of Aeneas.
- 2A female given name from Latin used since the 17th century. It was fairly popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, but rare today.
Etymology
Latin Lavinia, of obscure meaning. Lavinium was a town in ancient Latium.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alvinia,laivnia,laviina,lavinai,lavinnia,lavniia,lavvinia,llavinia,lvainia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lavinia - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “Lavinia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-A-V-I-N-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “Latina” - see the side-by-side comparison. Lavinia vs Latina
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.