Liliana
/lɪliˈɑnə/
"liliana" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Liliana” is uncommon English (frequency #50,044 among 16,425 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,044
- frequency rank, English
- 16,425
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A female given name from Latin, a Latinate form of Lilian, or borrowed from Italian or Spanish.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Liliana |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /lɪliˈɑnə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,044 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Liliana” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Liliana is uncommon English at frequency #50,044 among 16,425 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /lɪliˈɑnə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female given name from Latin, a Latinate form of Lilian, or borrowed from Italian or Spanish.".
Liliana doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is Liliana, spelled L-I-L-I-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1A female given name from Latin, a Latinate form of Lilian, or borrowed from Italian or Spanish.
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 “Liliana”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-I-L-I-A-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /lɪliˈɑnə/ (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.