Lemke
"lemke" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lemke” is uncommon English (frequency #79,701 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,701
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from German.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lemke · Lemke · English
Lemke · rank #79,701 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,701
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Levantine
Nearest frequency peer: Levantine (+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 “Lemke”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- lath
lath
20,305 corpus weight
- leatherman
leatherman
20,303 corpus weight
- lector
lector
20,302 corpus weight
- Lemke
Lemke
20,300 corpus weight
- Levantine
Levantine
20,299 corpus weight
- liberalize
liberalize
20,296 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Lemke” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lemke |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Lemke” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Lemke is uncommon English at frequency #79,701 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from German.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Lemke, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from German Lemke. The correct English form is Lemke, spelled L-E-M-K-E.
Definition
- 1A surname from German.
Etymology
Borrowed from German Lemke.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).