lobelia
/ləʊˈbiː.liə/
"lobelia" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lobelia” is uncommon English (frequency #86,463 among 16,425 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,463
- frequency rank, English
- 16,425
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A member of the genus Lobelia, flowering plants in the Lobelioideae subfamily of family Campanulaceae, containing many species, some of which are garden plants.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lobelia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ləʊˈbiː.liə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lobelia” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
lobelia is uncommon English at frequency #86,463 among 16,425 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ləʊˈbiː.liə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A member of the genus Lobelia, flowering plants in the Lobelioideae subfamily of family Campanulaceae, containing many species, some of which are garden plants.".
lobelia has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Internationalism. Learned borrowing from New Latin lobelia. The correct English form is lobelia, spelled L-O-B-E-L-I-A.
Definition
- 1A member of the genus Lobelia, flowering plants in the Lobelioideae subfamily of family Campanulaceae, containing many species, some of which are garden plants.
Etymology
Internationalism. Learned borrowing from New Latin lobelia.
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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- The one correct English spelling is L-O-B-E-L-I-A - 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.