Liguria
/lɪˈɡjʊəɹiə/
"liguria" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Liguria” is uncommon English (frequency #76,064 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,064
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An administrative region of northwest Italy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-liguria · Liguria · English
Liguria · rank #76,064 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,064
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lightnings
Nearest frequency peer: lightnings (-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 “Liguria”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Letterkenny
Letterkenny
23,942 corpus weight
- Lieder
Lieder
23,939 corpus weight
- lightnings
lightnings
23,938 corpus weight
- Liguria
Liguria
23,937 corpus weight
- Lindisfarne
Lindisfarne
23,936 corpus weight
- lockbox
lockbox
23,933 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Liguria” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Liguria |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /lɪˈɡjʊəɹiə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,064 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Liguria” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Liguria is uncommon English at frequency #76,064 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /lɪˈɡjʊəɹiə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An administrative region of northwest Italy.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Liguria, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Occitan Ligúria, from Latin Liguria, from Ancient Greek Λίγυς (Lígus). The correct English form is Liguria, spelled L-I-G-U-R-I-A.
Definition
- 1An administrative region of northwest Italy.
Etymology
From Occitan Ligúria, from Latin Liguria, from Ancient Greek Λίγυς (Lígus).
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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