leddy
"leddy" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“leddy” is uncommon English (frequency #87,482 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,482
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pronunciation spelling of lady.
Corpus desk
Index EN-leddy · leddy · English
leddy · rank #87,482 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,482
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Laverty
Nearest frequency peer: Laverty (-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 “leddy”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Lapham
Lapham
12,523 corpus weight
- Laverty
Laverty
12,521 corpus weight
- leddy
leddy
12,519 corpus weight
- Leiva
Leiva
12,517 corpus weight
- Lettie
Lettie
12,516 corpus weight
- Levison
Levison
12,515 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “leddy” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leddy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “leddy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
leddy is uncommon English at frequency #87,482 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pronunciation spelling of lady.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for leddy in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is leddy, spelled L-E-D-D-Y.
Definition
- 1Pronunciation spelling of lady.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how leddy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"What's to come o' my leddy?"
"'Well,' she says, calmin' down, 'is there e'er an Oirish leddy in the lot?'
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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