LDA
"lda" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“LDA” is uncommon English (frequency #61,584 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,584
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of localizer type directional aid.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lda · LDA · English
LDA · rank #61,584 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,584
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH leal
Nearest frequency peer: leal (+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 “LDA”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- laryngitis
laryngitis
38,420 corpus weight
- Lashkar
Lashkar
38,419 corpus weight
- LDA
LDA
38,417 corpus weight
- leal
leal
38,416 corpus weight
- learnings
learnings
38,415 corpus weight
- legalistic
legalistic
38,414 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “LDA” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | LDA |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #61,584 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “LDA” in English
Rare enough to double-check
LDA is uncommon English at frequency #61,584 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for LDA, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is LDA, spelled L-D-A.
Definition
- 1Initialism of localizer type directional aid.
- 2Initialism of lithium diisopropylamide.
- 3Initialism of local-density approximation.
- 4Initialism of linear discriminant analysis.
- 5Initialism of left-displaced abomasum.
- 6Initialism of legal drinking age.
- 7Initialism of low-density amorphous ice; a form of H₂O water ice, with a density less than that of liquid water, but denser than the usual crystalline ice.
- 8Initialism of Lahore Development Authority.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how LDA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Although widely successful, these methods depend on the mixing parameters and are computationally more expensive than local/semilocal functionals such as the local density approximation (LDA) or generalized gradient approximation.
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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