lighthouse
/ˈlaɪthaʊs/
"lighthouse" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lighthouse” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,948. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,948
- frequency rank, English
- 16,425
- “L” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A tower or other structure exhibiting a light or lights to warn or guide sailors.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lighthouse |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈlaɪthaʊs/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #13,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lighthouse” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around lighthouse (IPA /ˈlaɪthaʊs/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,948 among 16,425 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A tower or other structure exhibiting a light or lights to warn or guide sailors.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for lighthouse, with forms such as "ilghthouse", "lgihthouse", and "ligghthouse". 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. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From light + house. The correct English form is lighthouse, spelled L-I-G-H-T-H-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1A tower or other structure exhibiting a light or lights to warn or guide sailors.
Etymology
From light + house.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilghthouse
- lgihthouse
- ligghthouse
- lighhthouse
- lighhtouse
- lighthhouse
- lighthosue
- lighthoues
- lighthousse
- lighthuose
- lightohuse
- lightthouse
- ligthhouse
- lihgthouse
- llighthouse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lighthouse - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “lighthouse”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-I-G-H-T-H-O-U-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈlaɪthaʊs/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.