lightfoot
"lightfoot" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lightfoot” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #42,748. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,748
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Light-footed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lightfoot · lightfoot · English
lightfoot · rank #42,748 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #42,748
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH liftoff
Nearest frequency peer: liftoff (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “lightfoot”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- liberalisat…
liberalisation
57,255 corpus weight
- liftoff
liftoff
57,254 corpus weight
- lightfoot
lightfoot
57,253 corpus weight
- Linnaeus
Linnaeus
57,252 corpus weight
- Liszt
Liszt
57,251 corpus weight
- logarithmic
logarithmic
57,250 corpus weight
What this shows “lightfoot” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lightfoot |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #42,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “lightfoot”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around lightfoot, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #42,748 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Light-footed.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for lightfoot, with forms such as "ilghtfoot", "lgihtfoot", and "ligghtfoot". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "lightroom", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English light-fot, light-foot, from light (adjective) + fot, foot (noun). See more at light, foot. The correct English form is lightfoot, spelled L-I-G-H-T-F-O-O-T.
Definition
- 1Light-footed.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lightfoot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There was no comfort in the goodliness of spring or the bright sunshine weather, and she who had been wont to go about the doors lightfoot and blithe was now as dowie as a widow woman.
There she alighted from her light-foot beast, / And sitting downe upon the rocky shore, / Bade her old Squire unlace her lofty creast […]
Etymology
From Middle English light-fot, light-foot, from light (adjective) + fot, foot (noun). See more at light, foot.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilghtfoot
- lgihtfoot
- ligghtfoot
- lighftoot
- lighhtfoot
- lightffoot
- lightfoott
- lightfot
- lightfoto
- lightofot
- lighttfoot
- ligthfoot
- lihgtfoot
- llightfoot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lightfoot - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "lightfoot", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).