loincloth
"loincloth" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“loincloth” is uncommon English (frequency #76,070 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,070
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A garment worn about the loins and covering the crotch.
Corpus desk
Index EN-loincloth · loincloth · English
loincloth · rank #76,070 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,070
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH locomotor
Nearest frequency peer: locomotor (-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 “loincloth”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Liguria
Liguria
23,937 corpus weight
- Lindisfarne
Lindisfarne
23,936 corpus weight
- lockbox
lockbox
23,933 corpus weight
- locomotor
locomotor
23,932 corpus weight
- loincloth
loincloth
23,931 corpus weight
- loverboy
loverboy
23,925 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “loincloth” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loincloth |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “loincloth” in English
Rare enough to double-check
loincloth is uncommon English at frequency #76,070 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A garment worn about the loins and covering the crotch.".
Zero misspellings are on record for loincloth in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From loin + cloth. The correct English form is loincloth, spelled L-O-I-N-C-L-O-T-H.
Definition
- 1A garment worn about the loins and covering the crotch.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how loincloth appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.
Then again these figures take no account of the thousands of beggars who travel free in India. Many of these are religious "Sadhus", dressed often in nothing but a loin-cloth, or even less, and their bodies smeared with ashes. A large number of these men are nothing but impostors, but the Hindu railway staff usually are afraid to interfere with them.
Etymology
From loin + cloth.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).