# lawn

> English word · Noun · IPA /lɔːn/ · frequency rank #7,358

## Definitions
1. Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
2. An open space between woods.
3. An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.

## Etymology
Early Modern English laune (“turf, grassy area”), alteration of laund (“glade”), from Middle English launde, from Old French lande (“heath, moor”), of Germanic or Gaulish origin, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”) or Proto-Celtic *landā, both from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).
Akin to Breton lann (“heath”), Old Norse & Old English land. Doublet of land and lande.

## Easily confused with
- **LN** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lawn-vs-ln)
- **low** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lawn-vs-low)
- **lay** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lawn-vs-lay)
- **lin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lawn-vs-lin)
- **lax** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lawn-vs-lax)
- **Len** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lawn-vs-len)
- **Lew** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lawn-vs-lew)
- **Lon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lawn-vs-lon)
- **lyn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lawn-vs-lyn)
- **lun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lawn-vs-lun)
- **laws** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lawn-vs-laws)
- **loan** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lawn-vs-loan)
- **lion** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lawn-vs-lion)
- **lazy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lawn-vs-lazy)
- **lean** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lawn-vs-lean)
- **Leon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lawn-vs-leon)
- **Lynn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lawn-vs-lynn)
- **Lyon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lawn-vs-lyon)
- **lays** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lawn-vs-lays)
- **lowe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lawn-vs-lowe)

## Common misspellings (6)
`alwn`, `lanw`, `lawnn`, `lawwn`, `llawn`, `lwan`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/lawn