Lindisfarne
/ˈlɪndɪsfɑːn/
"lindisfarne" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lindisfarne” is uncommon English (frequency #76,065 among 16,425 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,065
- frequency rank, English
- 16,425
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A tidal island off the northeast coast of England, constituting the civil parish of Holy Island in Northumberland; once an important centre of Celtic Christianity.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lindisfarne |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈlɪndɪsfɑːn/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #76,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Lindisfarne” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Lindisfarne is uncommon English at frequency #76,065 among 16,425 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈlɪndɪsfɑːn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Lindisfarne, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Uncertain. From Old English Lindisfarena. It is thought the first element refers to the Lindsey area of Lincolnshire (from Old English Lindesēġe). The second element -farne may be from Old English farena, genitive plural of fara (“traveller”). Thus a plausi… The correct English form is Lindisfarne, spelled L-I-N-D-I-S-F-A-R-N-E.
Definition
- 1A tidal island off the northeast coast of England, constituting the civil parish of Holy Island in Northumberland; once an important centre of Celtic Christianity.
- 2A suburb of the City of Clarence, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Etymology
Uncertain. From Old English Lindisfarena. It is thought the first element refers to the Lindsey area of Lincolnshire (from Old English Lindesēġe). The second element -farne may be from Old English farena, genitive plural of fara (“traveller”). Thus a plausible translation of the full name would be, "island of the travellers to and from Lindsey". Coates argued for a Old Irish origin with from fearann (“territory”), with the first part being Old Irish lind (“lake”) + -as; perhaps based on an equivalent Proto-Brythonic formation.
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 “Lindisfarne”
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- The one correct English spelling is L-I-N-D-I-S-F-A-R-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.