Limos
"limos" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Limos” is uncommon English (frequency #56,877 among 16,425 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,877
- frequency rank, English
- 16,425
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A child of Eris, Limos is the deity/personification of famine and starvation. The Roman counterpart is Fames.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Limos |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,877 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Limos” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Limos is uncommon English at frequency #56,877 among 16,425 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A child of Eris, Limos is the deity/personification of famine and starvation. The Roman counterpart is Fames.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Limos, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek Λῑμός (Līmós), from Ancient Greek λῑμός (līmós, “hunger, famine, starvation”). The correct English form is Limos, spelled L-I-M-O-S.
Definition
- 1A child of Eris, Limos is the deity/personification of famine and starvation. The Roman counterpart is Fames.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Λῑμός (Līmós), from Ancient Greek λῑμός (līmós, “hunger, famine, starvation”).
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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Using “Limos”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-I-M-O-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.