LBA
"lba" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“LBA” is uncommon English (frequency #97,231 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,231
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of logical block addressing.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lba · LBA · English
LBA · rank #97,231 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,231
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lawgiver
Nearest frequency peer: lawgiver (-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 “LBA”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- lawgiver
lawgiver
2,771 corpus weight
- LBA
LBA
2,770 corpus weight
- LCT
LCT
2,769 corpus weight
- leachate
leachate
2,768 corpus weight
- leaseback
leaseback
2,767 corpus weight
- lepton
lepton
2,765 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “LBA” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | LBA |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #97,231 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “LBA” in English
Rare enough to double-check
LBA is uncommon English at frequency #97,231 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for LBA, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is LBA, spelled L-B-A.
Definition
- 1Initialism of logical block addressing.
- 2Initialism of logical block address.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how LBA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The IDE driver is responsible for sending correct LBAs so as to reference the desired file.
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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