Limos
"limos" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Limos” is uncommon English (frequency #56,877 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,877
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A child of Eris, Limos is the deity/personification of famine and starvation. The Roman counterpart is Fames.
Corpus desk
Index EN-limos · Limos · English
Limos · rank #56,877 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,877
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH levying
Nearest frequency peer: levying (-2 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 “Limos”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Lett
Lett
43,127 corpus weight
- levying
levying
43,126 corpus weight
- Limos
Limos
43,124 corpus weight
- loach
loach
43,122 corpus weight
- loyally
loyally
43,121 corpus weight
- lulz
lulz
43,119 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Limos” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Limos” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Limos is uncommon English at frequency #56,877 among 2,297 “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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