laxity
/ˈlaksɪti/
"laxity" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“laxity” is uncommon English (frequency #73,369 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,369
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state of being lax; looseness, lack of tension.
Corpus desk
Index EN-laxity · laxity · English
laxity · rank #73,369 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,369
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Lawlor
Nearest frequency peer: Lawlor (-1 rank slots)
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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 “laxity”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- lambie
lambie
26,636 corpus weight
- Lankford
Lankford
26,634 corpus weight
- Lawlor
Lawlor
26,633 corpus weight
- laxity
laxity
26,632 corpus weight
- leftism
leftism
26,631 corpus weight
- legislative…
legislatively
26,630 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “laxity” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laxity |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈlaksɪti/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “laxity” in English
Rare enough to double-check
laxity is uncommon English at frequency #73,369 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈlaksɪti/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
laxity has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Middle French laxité, itself borrowed from Latin laxitas, laxitatem, from laxus. By surface analysis, lax + -ity. The correct English form is laxity, spelled L-A-X-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The state of being lax; looseness, lack of tension.
- 2Moral looseness; lack of rigorousness or strictness.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how laxity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In these days of laxity, and anythingism in religion, even those of whom we might hope better things do not appear exercised, with the apostle Paul, to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards men.
It is no accident that capital punishment is reentering our society on the wave of the conservative reaction to the permissiveness and laxity of the past two decades.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French laxité, itself borrowed from Latin laxitas, laxitatem, from laxus. By surface analysis, lax + -ity.
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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