LDS
"lds" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“LDS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,845) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,845
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of Latter-day Saint.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lds · LDS · English
LDS · rank #21,845 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,845
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lear
Nearest frequency peer: lear (+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 neighbours of confusable “LDS”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- KT
KT
78,160 corpus weight
- laureate
laureate
78,158 corpus weight
- LDS
LDS
78,156 corpus weight
- lear
lear
78,155 corpus weight
- Lesley
Lesley
78,154 corpus weight
- leveling
leveling
78,153 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “LDS” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | LDS |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,845 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “LDS”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for LDS is neighbouring look-alikes ("le", "li", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #21,845 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Initialism of Latter-day Saint.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for LDS, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "le", "li", "Lt", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is LDS, spelled L-D-S.
Definition
- 1Initialism of Latter-day Saint.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how LDS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And that history of persecution is newly relevant after the mass shooting and arson targeting an LDS church in Michigan last Sunday.
This word in other languages
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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