LBJ
"lbj" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“LBJ” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,057) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,057
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Initialism of Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th US president (served 1963–1969).
Corpus desk
Index EN-lbj · LBJ · English
LBJ · rank #32,057 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,057
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lapses
Nearest frequency peer: lapses (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “LBJ”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- lacquer
lacquer
67,949 corpus weight
- lakeland
lakeland
67,948 corpus weight
- langer
langer
67,946 corpus weight
- lapses
lapses
67,945 corpus weight
- LBJ
LBJ
67,944 corpus weight
- LDL
LDL
67,943 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “LBJ” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | LBJ |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “LBJ” sits in English frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for LBJ is neighbouring look-alikes ("le", "li", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #32,057 among 2,297 “L” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for LBJ in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "le", "li", "Lt", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is LBJ, spelled L-B-J.
Definition
- 1Initialism of Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th US president (served 1963–1969).
- 2Initialism of LeBron James.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how LBJ appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I got a letter from L.B.J, it said, "This is your lucky day", it's time to put your khaki trousers on.
This required a legislative program, the Great Society, that would complete the New Deal and earn LBJ a place alongside FDR in the pantheon of heroic Democratic reformers.
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 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "LBJ" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "le". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #32,057 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.