lectionary
"lectionary" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lectionary” is uncommon English (frequency #82,480 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,480
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A book or listing that contains a collection of scripture readings appointed for Christian or Jewish worship on a given day or occasion.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lectionary · lectionary · English
lectionary · rank #82,480 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,480
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH leafing
Nearest frequency peer: leafing (-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 “lectionary”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Lamotte
Lamotte
17,525 corpus weight
- larkspur
larkspur
17,524 corpus weight
- Lassa
Lassa
17,523 corpus weight
- leafing
leafing
17,522 corpus weight
- lectionary
lectionary
17,521 corpus weight
- lento
lento
17,517 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “lectionary” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lectionary |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #82,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lectionary” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lectionary is uncommon English at frequency #82,480 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A book or listing that contains a collection of scripture readings appointed for Christian or Jewish worship on a given day or occasion.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lectionary, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ecclesiastical Latin lēctiōnārium. The correct English form is lectionary, spelled L-E-C-T-I-O-N-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1A book or listing that contains a collection of scripture readings appointed for Christian or Jewish worship on a given day or occasion.
Etymology
From Ecclesiastical Latin lēctiōnārium.
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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