Lilith
"lilith" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lilith” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #31,242 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #31,242
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A Mesopotamian storm demon, a bearer of disease and death.
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 | Lilith |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #31,242 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Lilith” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Lilith is 6 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #31,242 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lilith, with forms such as "illith", "liilth", and "liliht". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "limit", "limits", "Lolita", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Hebrew לִילִית (lîlîṯ). The correct English form is Lilith, spelled L-I-L-I-T-H.
Definition
- 1A Mesopotamian storm demon, a bearer of disease and death.
- 2The first wife of Adam in Jewish folklore.
- 3The "dark moon" or "black moon", a fictitious invisible second moon of Earth proposed by astrologers in the early 20th century. Now often interpreted as the position of the apogee of the actual Moon, or as the empty focus of the Moon's elliptical orbit (Earth occupying the other focus).
- 4A female given name from Hebrew.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hebrew לִילִית (lîlîṯ).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: illith,liilth,liliht,lilithh,lilitth,lillith,liltih,lliith,llilith
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lilith - 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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Using “Lilith”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-I-L-I-T-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “limit” - see the side-by-side comparison. Lilith vs limit
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.