Levantine
/ˈlɛvəntaɪn/
"levantine" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Levantine” is uncommon English (frequency #79,702 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,702
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean.
Corpus desk
Index EN-levantine · Levantine · English
Levantine · rank #79,702 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,702
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Lemke
Nearest frequency peer: Lemke (-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 “Levantine”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- 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
- lidded
lidded
20,295 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Levantine” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Levantine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈlɛvəntaɪn/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Levantine” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Levantine is uncommon English at frequency #79,702 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈlɛvəntaɪn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean.".
Levantine doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Levant + -ine (“of”). The correct English form is Levantine, spelled L-E-V-A-N-T-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Levantine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahha…
Etymology
From Levant + -ine (“of”).
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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