local authority
"local-authority" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“local authority” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An administrative body in local government, such as a city council.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | local authority |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “local authority” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for local authority is 15 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "An administrative body in local government, such as a city council.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for local authority in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is local authority, spelled L-O-C-A-L- -A-U-T-H-O-R-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1An administrative body in local government, such as a city council.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “local authority”
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- The one correct English spelling is L-O-C-A-L- -A-U-T-H-O-R-I-T-Y - 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.