Lod
"lod" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lod” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #44,309) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #44,309
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in Israel.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lod · Lod · English
Lod · rank #44,309 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,309
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lipoprotein
Nearest frequency peer: lipoprotein (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Lod”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- libretto
libretto
55,695 corpus weight
- lidar
lidar
55,694 corpus weight
- lipoprotein
lipoprotein
55,693 corpus weight
- Lod
Lod
55,692 corpus weight
- lopes
lopes
55,691 corpus weight
- lox
lox
55,689 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Lod” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lod |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #44,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Lod” sits in English frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Lod is neighbouring look-alikes ("Lt", "LP", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #44,309 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Gloss: "A city in Israel.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Lod, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lt", "LP", "Ls", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Hebrew לוד. The correct English form is Lod, spelled L-O-D.
Definition
- 1A city in Israel.
Etymology
From Hebrew לוד.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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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.