loamy
"loamy" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“loamy” is uncommon English (frequency #73,382 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,382
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.
Corpus desk
Index EN-loamy · loamy · English
loamy · rank #73,382 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,382
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH LMP
Nearest frequency peer: LMP (-1 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 “loamy”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- limps
limps
26,622 corpus weight
- Listerine
Listerine
26,621 corpus weight
- LMP
LMP
26,620 corpus weight
- loamy
loamy
26,619 corpus weight
- lofted
lofted
26,618 corpus weight
- logarithms
logarithms
26,617 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “loamy” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loamy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #73,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “loamy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
loamy is uncommon English at frequency #73,382 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.".
loamy has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From loam + -y. The correct English form is loamy, spelled L-O-A-M-Y.
Definition
- 1Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how loamy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with…
Etymology
From loam + -y.
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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