Lawry
"lawry" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lawry” is uncommon English (frequency #93,907 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,907
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lawry · Lawry · English
Lawry · rank #93,907 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,907
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH laundress
Nearest frequency peer: laundress (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Lawry”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Laplacian
Laplacian
6,099 corpus weight
- laundress
laundress
6,096 corpus weight
- Lawry
Lawry
6,094 corpus weight
- Leb
Leb
6,091 corpus weight
- levodopa
levodopa
6,088 corpus weight
- Liebling
Liebling
6,086 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Lawry” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lawry |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #93,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Lawry” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Lawry is uncommon English at frequency #93,907 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
Lawry doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: English and Irish surname, probably from a pet form of Lawrence. See Lawrie. The correct English form is Lawry, spelled L-A-W-R-Y.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Etymology
English and Irish surname, probably from a pet form of Lawrence. See Lawrie.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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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.