LMR
"lmr" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“LMR” is uncommon English (frequency #89,560 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,560
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of land mobile radio.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lmr · LMR · English
LMR · rank #89,560 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,560
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Livi
Nearest frequency peer: Livi (-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 “LMR”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- livability
livability
10,444 corpus weight
- Livi
Livi
10,443 corpus weight
- LMR
LMR
10,441 corpus weight
- loftier
loftier
10,439 corpus weight
- longe
longe
10,437 corpus weight
- loofah
loofah
10,436 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “LMR” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | LMR |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #89,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “LMR” in English
Rare enough to double-check
LMR is uncommon English at frequency #89,560 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for LMR in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is LMR, spelled L-M-R.
Definition
- 1Initialism of land mobile radio.
- 2Initialism of last-minute resistance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how LMR appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I figured she'd probably started dating someone else, someone who had been able to break through her LMR.
A woman's LMR threshold may differ from person to person, and a woman's own LMR threshold will change depending on the value of the man she is about to sleep with and other circumstances.
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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