LBO
"lbo" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“LBO” is uncommon English (frequency #90,652 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,652
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of leveraged buyout.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lbo · LBO · English
LBO · rank #90,652 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,652
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH leavening
Nearest frequency peer: leavening (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “LBO”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- lathered
lathered
9,353 corpus weight
- LBO
LBO
9,349 corpus weight
- leavening
leavening
9,347 corpus weight
- lege
lege
9,346 corpus weight
- legionary
legionary
9,345 corpus weight
- legitimation
legitimation
9,344 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “LBO” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | LBO |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #90,652 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “LBO” in English
Rare enough to double-check
LBO is uncommon English at frequency #90,652 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Initialism of leveraged buyout.".
No misspelling variants are generated for LBO in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is LBO, spelled L-B-O.
Definition
- 1Initialism of leveraged buyout.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how LBO appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Whether LBOs perform poorly because of debt, business strategy, or competition from Amazon.com Inc., research shows they fare worse than their public counterparts.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).