Leominster
/ˈlɛmstə/
"leominster" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Leominster” is uncommon English (frequency #71,653 among 16,425 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,653
- frequency rank, English
- 16,425
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A market town and civil parish with a town council in northern Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO4958).
Corpus desk
Index EN-leominster · Leominster · English
Leominster · rank #71,653 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,653
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 16,425
- PHOTO-FINISH lesbo
Nearest frequency peer: lesbo (+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 neighbourhood for “Leominster”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- lait
lait
28,355 corpus weight
- Leduc
Leduc
28,350 corpus weight
- Leominster
Leominster
28,348 corpus weight
- lesbo
lesbo
28,347 corpus weight
- lill
lill
28,342 corpus weight
- liminal
liminal
28,341 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Leominster” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Leominster |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈlɛmstə/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,653 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Leominster” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Leominster is uncommon English at frequency #71,653 among 16,425 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈlɛmstə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Leominster in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English Lemynster, Lemyster, from Old English Lēomynster, from Lēon (a region name) + mynster (“monastery”). The correct English form is Leominster, spelled L-E-O-M-I-N-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1A market town and civil parish with a town council in northern Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO4958).
- 2A city in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English Lemynster, Lemyster, from Old English Lēomynster, from Lēon (a region name) + mynster (“monastery”).
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.