likey
/ˈlaɪki/
"likey" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“likey” is uncommon English (frequency #63,765 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,765
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of like.
Corpus desk
Index EN-likey · likey · English
likey · rank #63,765 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,765
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH litigator
Nearest frequency peer: litigator (+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 “likey”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- lamppost
lamppost
36,245 corpus weight
- lecherous
lecherous
36,243 corpus weight
- likey
likey
36,236 corpus weight
- litigator
litigator
36,235 corpus weight
- Lucina
Lucina
36,230 corpus weight
- Lupton
Lupton
36,229 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “likey” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | likey |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈlaɪki/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “likey” in English
Rare enough to double-check
likey is uncommon English at frequency #63,765 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈlaɪki/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of like.".
likey doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is likey, spelled L-I-K-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of like.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).